On hit inflation techniques and detection in streams of web advertising networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 52-61

  Metwally, Ahmed ^a,b   Agrawal, Divyakant ^a   El Abbadi, Amr ^a   Qi, Zheng ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b ValueClick Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ADVERTISING BUDGETS; CLICK FRAUD; THEORETICAL STREAM ANALYSIS; WEB ADVERTISING NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 34848907439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2007.124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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