@incollection{eggert_classification_2015,
 abstract = {Computer games are big business, which is also reflected in the growing interest in competitive gaming, the so-called electronic sports. Multi-player online battle arena games are among the most successful games in this regard. In order to execute complex team-based strategies, players take on very specific roles within a team. This paper investigates the applicability of supervised machine learning to classifying player behavior in terms of specific and commonly accepted but not formally well-defined roles within a team of players of the game Dota 2. We provide an in-depth discussion and novel approaches for constructing complex attributes from low-level data extracted from replay files. Using attribute evaluation techniques, we are able to reduce a larger set of candidate attributes down to a manageable number. Based on this resulting set of attributes, we compare and discuss the performance of a variety of supervised classification algorithms. Our results with a data set of 708 labeled players see logistic regression as the overall most stable and best performing classifier.},
 address = {Cham},
 author = {Eggert, Christoph and Herrlich, Marc and Smeddinck, Jan and Malaka, Rainer},
 booktitle = {Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015},
 copyright = {©2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland},
 editor = {Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos and Divitini, Monica and Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud and Jaccheri, Letizia and Malaka, Rainer},
 isbn = {978-3-319-24588-1 978-3-319-24589-8},
 keywords = {Computer Graphics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), multi-player games, Personal Computing, Media Design, classification, player roles},
 language = {en},
 note = {"url_pdf":"./files/papers/c_01_ClassificationOfPlayerRoles.pdf"},
 number = {9353},
 pages = {112--125},
 publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 title = {Classification of Player Roles in the Team-Based Multi-player Game Dota 2},
 url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-24589-8_9},
 urldate = {2016-06-13},
 volume = {9353},
 year = {2015}
}