Vulnerabilities and countermeasures in context-aware social rating services

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Qinyuan ^a,b   Liu, Ling ^b   Dai, Yafei ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rating system; Recommender system; Reputation system; Trust mechanism

Indexed keywords

ATTACK STRATEGIES; CONTEXT-AWARE; DECISION MAKERS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; RATING SYSTEM; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SOCIAL RATINGS; TIME WINDOWS; TRUST ESTABLISHMENT; TRUST MECHANISM;

INTERNET; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

RATING;

EID: 84863231998     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2078316.2078319     Document Type: Article

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