Dishonest behaviors in online rating systems: Cyber competition, attack models, and attack generator

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 855-867

  Yang, Ya Fei ^a   Feng, Qin Yuan ^b   Sun, Yan ^a   Dai, Ya Fei ^b  

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attack; Online rating system; Trust

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; ATTACK BEHAVIOR; ATTACK MODEL; CURRENT RATING; DATA COLLECTION; DETECTION APPROACH; DETECTION SYSTEM; HUMAN USERS; ONLINE RATING SYSTEM; ONLINE RATING SYSTEMS; RATING SYSTEM; TRUST; UNFAIR RATINGS;

DATA ACQUISITION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 70349594324     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-009-9277-5     Document Type: Article

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