TY - GEN
T1 - Mining for gold farmers
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2009
AU - Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb
AU - Keegan, Brian
AU - Srivastava, Jaideep
AU - Williams, Dmitri
AU - Contractor, Noshir
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Gold farming refers to the illicit practice of gathering and selling virtual goods in online games for real money. Although around one million gold farmers engage in gold farming related activities [14], to date a systematic study of identifying gold farmers has not been done. In this paper we use data from the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) EverQuest II to identify gold farmers. We perform an exploratory logistic regression analysis to identify salient descriptive statistics followed by a machine learning binary classification problem to identify a set of features for classification purposes. Given the cost associated with investigating gold farmers, we also give criteria for evaluating gold farming detection techniques, and provide suggestions for future testing and evaluation techniques
AB - Gold farming refers to the illicit practice of gathering and selling virtual goods in online games for real money. Although around one million gold farmers engage in gold farming related activities [14], to date a systematic study of identifying gold farmers has not been done. In this paper we use data from the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) EverQuest II to identify gold farmers. We perform an exploratory logistic regression analysis to identify salient descriptive statistics followed by a machine learning binary classification problem to identify a set of features for classification purposes. Given the cost associated with investigating gold farmers, we also give criteria for evaluating gold farming detection techniques, and provide suggestions for future testing and evaluation techniques
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U2 - 10.1109/CSE.2009.307
DO - 10.1109/CSE.2009.307
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70849088721
SN - 9780769538235
T3 - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009
SP - 340
EP - 345
BT - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2009
Y2 - 29 August 2009 through 31 August 2009
ER -