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...e of converting game traces to the unified game trace format, this useless content should be filtered out. Another important issue in converting traces is to provide a privacy guarantee. Many studies =-=[10]-=-, [11] have shown that just anonymizing user names is not sufficient to ensure privacy. Requirement 3: Trace processing. The archive should provide a toolbox to process the converted game traces and g...

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...eo and computer gaming have become increasingly popular branches of the entertainment industry. Understanding the characteristics of games and OMGNs such as player behavior [1], [2], traffic analysis =-=[3]-=-, [4], resource management [5], [6], etc., is essential for the design, operation, and tuning of game systems. However, only a small number of game traces exist; even fewer can be accessed publicly. A...

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...r the last decade, video and computer gaming have become increasingly popular branches of the entertainment industry. Understanding the characteristics of games and OMGNs such as player behavior [1], =-=[2]-=-, traffic analysis [3], [4], resource management [5], [6], etc., is essential for the design, operation, and tuning of game systems. However, only a small number of game traces exist; even fewer can b...

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...e (GWA) [9] is a grid trace repository and a community center for the grid area. For the peer-to-peer community and wireless network community, the Peer-to-Peer Trace Archive (P2PTA) [25] and CRAWDAD =-=[26]-=- are designed, respectively. These archives are limited to their specific areas, they can not cover the game traces. Social network and large-scale graph analysis are popular research topic in recent ...

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...re the data in the Other Game-related Dataset. For example, for match replays, we keep their own formats derived from games. The formatted replays, such as StarCraft replays, are used by Weber et al. =-=[13]-=- and Hsieh et al. [14] to study player in-game behavior. Moreover, we provide detailed introduction files to guide the archive users how to process the formats. Meta-information is also provided, to l...

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...raphs. The SNAP [27] project is a high efficient library to analyze large scale networks and graph, however, the format in this project can not be extended to express multi relationships. The DyNetML =-=[28]-=- is an XMLbased format which is extensible to express abundant social network data. The disadvantage of this format is that plenty of markups and delimiter tags are needed to store each data item, whi...

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...onverting game traces to the unified game trace format, this useless content should be filtered out. Another important issue in converting traces is to provide a privacy guarantee. Many studies [10], =-=[11]-=- have shown that just anonymizing user names is not sufficient to ensure privacy. Requirement 3: Trace processing. The archive should provide a toolbox to process the converted game traces and generat...

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...er Game-related Dataset. For example, for match replays, we keep their own formats derived from games. The formatted replays, such as StarCraft replays, are used by Weber et al. [13] and Hsieh et al. =-=[14]-=- to study player in-game behavior. Moreover, we provide detailed introduction files to guide the archive users how to process the formats. Meta-information is also provided, to link the game-related i...

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... Workloads Archive (GWA) [9] is a grid trace repository and a community center for the grid area. For the peer-to-peer community and wireless network community, the Peer-to-Peer Trace Archive (P2PTA) =-=[25]-=- and CRAWDAD [26] are designed, respectively. These archives are limited to their specific areas, they can not cover the game traces. Social network and large-scale graph analysis are popular research...

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...f the online games and the analysis of game traces from same game genre is not sufficient. A number of archives have been build in the other computer science areas. The Internet Traffic Archive (ITA) =-=[24]-=- archives internet network traffic traces for the research of network characteristics. The Parallel Workloads Archive (PWA) [8] collects workloads from parallel environments. The Grid Workloads Archiv...

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...ors and third-parties around single games or even entire collections of games. These communities through the relationships between entities such as players and games, form Online Meta-Gaming Networks =-=[7]-=-. Tens of millions of players currently participate in OMGNs, such as Valve’s Steam, XFire, and Sony’s PlayStation Network, to obtain game-related information (game tutorials, statistic information, e...

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...mprove the quality of match-making systems and player gaming experience. For example, considering friendships and assigning friends in a same team may allow better match-making. 2) Detecting cheaters =-=[21]-=-. The behavior of cheaters may be different from that of normal players, especially different from that of the cheaters’ graph neighbors. Identifying graph neighbors and extracting their behavior patt...

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...come increasingly popular branches of the entertainment industry. Understanding the characteristics of games and OMGNs such as player behavior [1], [2], traffic analysis [3], [4], resource management =-=[5]-=-, [6], etc., is essential for the design, operation, and tuning of game systems. However, only a small number of game traces exist; even fewer can be accessed publicly. As a consequence, previous stud...

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...s in this work on potential application of the GTA data to select the location and moment to integrate advertisement. 1) Integrating advertisements into games with less influence to gaming experience =-=[23]-=-. If an advertisement interrupts player immersion, especially during important and time-limited tasks, the advertisement may fail. What is worse, this may results in player departure. Analyzing the ty...

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...N Over the last decade, video and computer gaming have become increasingly popular branches of the entertainment industry. Understanding the characteristics of games and OMGNs such as player behavior =-=[1]-=-, [2], traffic analysis [3], [4], resource management [5], [6], etc., is essential for the design, operation, and tuning of game systems. However, only a small number of game traces exist; even fewer ...

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...d computer gaming have become increasingly popular branches of the entertainment industry. Understanding the characteristics of games and OMGNs such as player behavior [1], [2], traffic analysis [3], =-=[4]-=-, resource management [5], [6], etc., is essential for the design, operation, and tuning of game systems. However, only a small number of game traces exist; even fewer can be accessed publicly. As a c...

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...from that of the cheaters’ graph neighbors. Identifying graph neighbors and extracting their behavior pattern may be helpful for distinguishing and confirming cheaters. 3) Building reputation systems =-=[22]-=-. The reputation of a player (ratee) is calculated from ratings given by the other players (raters). During the calculation, each rating should have its own weight, which may be assigned according to ...

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...increasingly popular branches of the entertainment industry. Understanding the characteristics of games and OMGNs such as player behavior [1], [2], traffic analysis [3], [4], resource management [5], =-=[6]-=-, etc., is essential for the design, operation, and tuning of game systems. However, only a small number of game traces exist; even fewer can be accessed publicly. As a consequence, previous studies u...

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...ic period in a day or week [5]. 3) Reducing resource consumption. The use of positional update messages, which account for a large portion of network consumption, can be tuned to play characteristics =-=[18]-=-. We believe that the GTA can further help with this tuning process. Firstly, we may identify groups and core group players from player graphs. Then, using the core players as proxies for their groups...

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...2 58 7,734 34.7 OMGN Dota-League 5 2006/07-2011/03 23 61 3.7 RTS DotAlicious 6 2010/04-2012/02 1 64 0.6 RTS Dota Garena 7 2009/09-2010/05 5.2 310 0.1 RTS WoWAH [16] 2006/01-2009/10 1 91 N/A MMORPG RS =-=[17]-=- 2007/08-2008/02 1 0.1 N/A MMORPG RTS games, MMORPG games, and OMGNs. Our GTA can cover game traces collected by ourselves. The KGS and FICS traces include a large number of matches in two popular boa...

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...s of nodes and relationships, in our gaming graphs. Many formats have been designed to enable the exchange of social networks and graphs, but none of them is able to cover the gaming graphs. The SNAP =-=[27]-=- project is a high efficient library to analyze large scale networks and graph, however, the format in this project can not be extended to express multi relationships. The DyNetML [28] is an XMLbased ...

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...relevant resources to different types of players. The types or importance of players in a group can be identified from their playing behavior. For example, when supporting a group voice-communication =-=[19]-=-, the group leaders may need more upload bandwidth than other group members for sending their commands, because they have multiple voice channels, one for each other group member. B. Quality of Experi...

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... players The Quality of Experience for players covers a wide range of aspects. In the following, we list four applications that could use the GTA to improve the QoE. 1) Improving match-making systems =-=[20]-=-. Considering more player information stored in the GTA such as skill, rank, win ratio, and the friendship graph may improve the quality of match-making systems and player gaming experience. For examp...