Detecting Wikipedia vandalism via spatio-temporal analysis of revision metadata?

Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on System Security, EUROSEC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 22-28

  West, Andrew G ^a   Kannan, Sampath ^a   Lee, Insup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative software; Content based access control; Spatio temporal reputation; Vandalism; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; E-MAIL SPAM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PROPERTIES; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL FEATURES; WIKIPEDIA;

CLASSIFIERS; GROUPWARE; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; METADATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77952379646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1752046.1752050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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