Prevalence and mitigation of forum spamming

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2309-2317

  Shin, Youngsang ^a   Gupta, Minaxi ^a   Myers, Steven ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET USERS; LIGHT WEIGHT; SPAMMERS; SVM CLASSIFIERS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SPAMMING; USER INTERFACES;

INTERNET;

EID: 79960856387     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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