runescape-dataset.tar.gz

Moreno Marzolla marzolla@cs.unibo.it, Università di Bologna, Italy

Stefano Ferretti sferrett@cs.unibo.it, Università di Bologna, Italy

Gabriele D'Angelo g.dangelo@unibo.it, Università di Bologna, Italy

This dataset collects the number of players of the RuneScape MMOG during the period from 2011-05-04 to 2011-11-22. The data have been collected by fetching the page http://www.runescape.com/title.ws approximately every 2 minutes, and checking the number of players online as it appeared on that page.

Note that, due to occasional network glitches, some measurements may have been missed (and do not appear on the dataset).

The structure of the dataset is quite simple. There are three columns, separated by a single space. Columns 1 and 2 contain the timestamp in RFC 3339 format, as produced by the `date –rfc-3339=“seconds”` UNIX command. The third column is the number of players online at that time. Pay attention to the daylight saving on october 30, 2011.

The present dataset is available from http://pads.cs.unibo.it/

If you use this dataset, please cite it as follows:

Moreno Marzolla, Stefano Ferretti, and Gabriele D'Angelo. 2012. Dynamic resource provisioning for cloud-based gaming infrastructures. ACM Computers in Entertainment. 10, 3, Article 4 (December 2012), 20 pages. DOI=10.1145/2381876.2381880 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2381876.2381880

For BibTeX, you can use the following block (courtesy ACM Digital Library)

@article{Marzolla:2012:DRP:2381876.2381880,
 author = {Marzolla, Moreno and Ferretti, Stefano and D'angelo, Gabriele},
 title = {Dynamic resource provisioning for cloud-based gaming infrastructures},
 journal = {Comput. Entertain.},
 issue_date = {November 2012},
 volume = {10},
 number = {3},
 month = dec,
 year = {2012},
 issn = {1544-3574},
 pages = {4:1--4:20},
 articleno = {4},
 numpages = {20},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2381876.2381880},
 doi = {10.1145/2381876.2381880},
 acmid = {2381880},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {Cloud computing, dynamic scalability, massively multiplayer online games, performance modeling},
}

This RuneScape dataset version 1.1 by Moreno Marzolla, Stefano Ferretti, Gabriele D'Angelo, is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/. See above for details on how to attribute this dataset.

THIS DATA IS PROVIDED AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. THE AUTHORS ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH RUNESCAPE OR JAGEX LTD. AND MAKE NO CLAIM THAT THIS DATA IS CORRECT.