“As Time Goes By” - Using Time Series Based Decision Tree Induction to Analyze the Behaviour of Opponent Players

A new decision tree induction for continous valued time series is described, used to analyze the behaviour of opponent players.

Abstract

With the more sophisticated abilities of teams within the simulation league, high level online functions become more and more attractive. Last year we proposed an approach to recognize the opponents strategy and developed the online coach accordingly. The coach was able to detect their strategy and then passed this information together with appropriate countermeasures to his team. However, this approach gives only information about the entire team and is not able to detect significant situations (e.g. double pass, standard situations). In this paper we describe a new decision tree induction for continous valued time series, used to analyze the behaviour of opponent players.