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Generally, the gamer community disagrees with the use of game bots, as bot users obtain unreasonable rewards without corresponding e®orts. However, bots are hard to detect because they are designed to simulate human game playing behavior and they follow game rules exactly. Existing detection approaches either interrupt the players' gaming experiences, or assume game bots are run as standalone clients or assigned a speci¯c goal, such as aim bots in FPS games. Therefore, we separately propose game bot detection approaches according to two di®erent types of online games. 1) A trajectory-based approach to detect FPS game bots. It is a general tech- nique that can be applied to any game in which the avatar's movement is controlled directly by the players. Through real-life data traces, the result shows that the trajectories of human players and those of game bots are very di®erent. In addition, although game bots may endeavor to simulate players' decisions, certain human be- havior patterns are di±cult to mimic because they are AI-hard. Taking Quake 2 as a case study, we evaluate our scheme's performance based on real-life traces. The result shows that the scheme can achieve a detection accuracy to 95% or higher, given a trace of 200 seconds or longer. 2) A pressure-error-based approach to detect rhythm game bots. It is also a general technique that can be applied to any rhythm game in which the errors increase the dependance on pressure from the game speed and key combinations. viii Theoretically, the bot can ¯ght back by learning the real player's behaviors, but without our arguments of formula, the bot is hard to do that. The study case is Dancing Online. Up to now, we have not found any paper about rhythm game bots detection, so we believe that this paper is the ¯rst one for rhythm game bots detection. Key words: Cheating Detection, Online Games, Quake, Dancing Online, Secu- rity, Supervised Classi¯cation, User Behavior ix Chapter 1 Introduction In recent years, online game has become one of the most popular Internet ac- tivities. However, as the population of online gamers has increased, game cheating problems, such as the use of game bots, have become more and more serious. Game bots are automated programs with arti¯cial intelligence for players to use on di®er- ent purposes. In MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Player Games), players can save a great deal of time by using bots to perform repetitive tasks, such as slashing low-level monsters, or ¯shing in a river to master the avatar's ¯shing skills. In FPS (First-Person Shooter) games and rhythm games, users can employ bots to play in place of themselves in order to get high scores and gain a reputation in the community. Generally, the gamer community disagrees with the use of game bots, as bot users obtain unreasonable rewards without corresponding e®orts. However, game bots are hard to detect because they are designed to simulate human game playing behaviors and they follow the game rules exactly. Some bot detection studies [7,19] propose that using CAPTCHA tests during a game can determine whether an avatar is actually controlled by a person or not. Although it is e®ective, it interrupts the game and degrades players' feelings of immersion in the virtual world [10,14]. Alter- natively, passive detection approaches, such as schemes based on tra±c analysis [1,2] and schemes based on avatars' shooting accuracy in FPS games [20], can be used. The former approach assumes that a game bot works as a standalone client, and the 1 latter is only valid for detecting aim bots in shooting games. The genre of MMOG is very varied, so we only select two very popular types of online games and try to propose the general approaches separately to detect each bots. 1) A trajectory-based approach for all genres of games where a player controls the avatar's movement directly which is based on the avatar's movement trajectory during a game. 2) A pressure-error-based approach for rhythm games where a player follows rhythm to hit the corresponding key which is based on the pressure and error rate relationship of the player during a game. The rationale of the ¯rst approach is that the trajectory of the avatar controlled by a human player is hard to simulate.
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