Shilling attack detection - A new approach for a trustworthy recommender system

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-131

  Lee, Jong Seok ^a   Zhu, Dan ^b  

^a SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Multidimensional scaling; Recommender systems; Shilling attacks

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; ATTACK DETECTION; CLUSTERING; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS; SHILLING ATTACKS; SMALL DATA;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862019479     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1100.0440     Document Type: Article

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