Identifying suspicious bidders utilizing hierarchical clustering and decision trees

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 195-201

  Ford, Benjamin J ^a   Xu, Haiping ^a   Valova, Iren ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Hierarchical clustering; Online auctions; Shilling behavior; Suspicious bidder

Indexed keywords

BIDDING ACTIVITIES; CLUSTERING RESULTS; DATA SETS; ERROR RATE; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; ONLINE AUCTIONS; SHILLING BEHAVIOR; SUSPICIOUS BIDDER; VALIDATION APPROACH;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84866087033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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