Churn prediction in MMORPGs using player motivation theories and an ensemble approach

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 157-164

  Borbora, Zoheb ^a   Srivastava, Jaideep ^a   Hsu, Kuo Wei ^b   Iams, Dmitri Wil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CUSTOMER RETENTION; DATA SETS; DATA-DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; DOMAIN EXPERTS; INTERPRETABILITY; LIFT ANALYSIS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MMORPGS; MODEL COMPLEXITY; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION PROBLEM; RETURN ON INVESTMENTS; ROLE-PLAYING GAME;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTIVATION; SALES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84856202925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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