Mining for gold farmers: Automatic detection of deviant players in MMOGs

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 340-345

  Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb ^a   Keegan, Brian ^b   Srivastava, Jaideep ^a   Williams, Dmitri ^c   Contractor, Noshir ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTIPLAYERS; ON-LINE GAMES; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TESTING AND EVALUATION; VIRTUAL GOODS;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GOLD;

EID: 70849088721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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