Defending recommender systems: Detection of profile injection attacks

Service Oriented Computing and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 157-170

  Williams, Chad A ^a   Mobasher, Bamshad ^b   Burke, Robin ^b  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack detection; Attack models; Bias profile injection; Collaborative filtering; Recommender systems; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ATTACK DETECTION; BIAS PROFILE INJECTION; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 35648963540     PISSN: 18632386     EISSN: 18632394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11761-007-0013-0     Document Type: Article

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