Title
Analyzing Implicit Social Networks In Multiplayer Online Games
Abstract
Understanding the social structures that people implicitly form when playing networked games helps developers create innovative gaming services to benefit both players and operators. But how can we extract and analyze this implicit social structure? The authors' proposed formalism suggests various ways to map interactions to social structure. Applying this formalism to real-world data collected from three game genres reveals the implications of the mappings on in-game and gaming-related services, ranging from network and socially aware player matchmaking to an investigation of social network robustness against player departure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MIC.2014.19
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
behavioral science,games,data mining,social networks,data models,internet
Data modeling,World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Human–computer interaction,Behavioural sciences,Operator (computer programming),Social structure,Formalism (philosophy),Multimedia,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
3
1089-7801
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
0.92
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandru Iosup12042125.89
Ruud van de Bovenkamp2473.69
Siqi Shen313514.47
Adele Lu Jia4648.01
Fernando A. Kuipers571544.47