Online modeling of proactive moderation system for auction fraud detection

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 669-678

  Zhang, Liang ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Tseng, Belle ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraud detection; Multiple instance learning; Online auction; Online feature selection; Online modeling

Indexed keywords

FRAUD DETECTION; MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING; ONLINE AUCTIONS; ONLINE FEATURE SELECTION; ONLINE MODELING;

CRIME; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84860860307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187836.2187927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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