Securing rating aggregation systems using statistical detectors and trust

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 883-898

  Yang, Yafei ^a   Sun, Yan Lindsay ^b   Kay, Steven ^b   Yang, Qing ^b  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack; Detector; Trust; Unfair rating

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN USERS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; ONLINE FEEDBACK; ONLINE RATING SYSTEMS; RATING AGGREGATION; RATING SYSTEM; UNFAIR RATINGS;

DETECTORS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450258042     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2009.2033741     Document Type: Article

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