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HICSS
2005
IEEE
191views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Formation of Task-Oriented Groups: Exploring Combat Activities in Online Games
— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
Yun Huang, Mengxiao Zhu, Jing Wang, Nishith Pathak...
MMM
2010
Springer
205views Multimedia» more  MMM 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Characterizing Virtual Populations in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Abstract. Understanding player distributions, sessions, and movements in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) is essential for research in scalable architectur...
Daniel Pittman, Chris GauthierDickey
CORR
2007
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Epidemic Spread in Synthetic Populations - Virtual Plagues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
A virtual plague is a process in which a behavior-affecting property spreads among characters in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). The MMOG individuals constitute a synt...
Magnus Boman, Stefan J. Johansson
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Robust resource allocation in a massive multiplayer online gaming environment
The environment considered in this research is a massive multiplayer online gaming (MMOG) environment. Each user controls an avatar (an image that represents and is manipulated by...
Luis Diego Briceno, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. ...