The information cost of manipulation-resistance in recommender systems

RecSys'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 147-154

  Resnick, Paul ^a   Sami, Rahul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Manipulation resistance; Recommender systems; Shilling, information loss

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY;

INFORMATION COSTS; LOWER BOUNDS; MANIPULATION-RESISTANCE; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SHILLING, INFORMATION LOSS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 63449085337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1454008.1454033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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