Identifying spam in the iOS App Store

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 56-59

  Chandy, Rishi ^a   Gu, Haijie ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraud detection; Mobile apps; Opinion spam; Review spam

Indexed keywords

APP STORES; DATA SETS; DECISION TREE MODELS; FRAUD DETECTION; GRAPHICAL MODEL; LATENT CLASS; MOBILE APPS; OPINION SPAM; USER INFORMATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; PROFITABILITY;

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EID: 84860572485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2184305.2184317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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