Un jeu en ligne permet aux joueurs de gagner de l'argent virtuel, ainsi que de gagner, vendre et acheter des prix en ligne, ce qui a pour effet de créer une économie virtuelle indépendante. Il semble que les économies virtuelles de jeux en ligne provoquent une instabilité des devises, une augmentation des prix et permettent […]

An online game allows players to earn virtual currency and to collect, sell and buy online prizes, in effect creating a self©contained virtual economy. There are indications that virtual gaming economies generate currency instabilities, increases in prices, and the accumulation of large virtual wealth holdings by some players. Such distortions can threaten the sustainability of […]

This research internship is centered on the discovery of specific behavioral trends among vast collections of user data; more specifically,the identification of cheaters among a community of social online gamers. The current approach to fraud detection, taken by Backstage Technologies Incorporated, is highly manual and heuristic. We plan to experiment with modern data mining and […]