From Matthias_Schubert

The Loot Box for Managing and Mining Virtual Environments

Major Topics in the Area:

• Mining Entity Trajectories
• Dectecting cheating players
• Bot Detection
• Databases for Moving Entities
• High Throughput Indexing of Entity Positions
• Analysing Player Strategies
• Managing and Mining Game Logs
• Evaluating Maps for Game Fairness
• Detection of Game Mechanic Exploitation
• Replication and Parallelization in Spatial Databases
• Spatial Indexing for Main Memory
• Persistence Management Highly Volatile Systems
• Spatial Simulations
• Player Identification
• Improving movement patterns for computer controlled Entities
• Efficient path search on virtual maps
• Approximating Player Skills
• Match making algorithms
• Continous area of interet queries
• P2P virtual environments

Publication

Here is a link to all a list of papers about Managing and Mining Virtual Environments and Games.
If you think there is something missing, please comment. I will try to list as much related publications as possible.

Bibliography

Websites

Conferences,Workshops and Journals

Some Workshops and Conferences in the area. I did not link the homepage yet becasue most of them are annual.

• MAMIVE (Workshop on ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS)
• DMLG (Workshop on ECML/PKDD and ICML)
• MMVE (Workshop on HAVE)
• NETGAMES (Workshop)

Software Downloads

Data Collections

Data collections that are already pre-processed.

• Quake 3 Tournament Trajectory Data: Quake3 Trajectory Data
• WOW Avatar History Data Set by Multimedia Networking and Systems Lab,Institute of Information Science,Academia Sinica wowah

Gaming Links