Combining ranking concept and social network analysis to detect collusive groups in online auctions

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9079-9086

  Lin, Shi Jen ^a   Jheng, Yi Ying ^a   Yu, Cheng Hsien ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Collusive group detection; Online auction; Ranking method

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; DATA CLEANING; FRAUDSTERS; GROUP DETECTION; LITERATURE REVIEWS; ONLINE AUCTION MARKET; ONLINE AUCTIONS; RANKING METHODS; RISK EVALUATION; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; WEB CRAWLING; WEB STRUCTURES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CRIME; CRIME; RATING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84862785741     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.039     Document Type: Article

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