Detecting fake medical web sites using recursive trust labeling

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Abbasi, Ahmed ^a   Zahedi, Fatemeh Mariam ^b   Kaza, Siddharth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LEARNING; ADAPTIVE LEARNING ALGORITHM; EHEALTH; GRAPH-BASED; GRAPH-BASED METHODS; MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS; META-LEARNING TECHNIQUES; ONLINE TRUST; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; PUBLIC SAFETY; SITE DETECTION; TRAINING DATASET; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EQUIPMENT TESTING; HEALTH; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84871254978     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2382438.2382441     Document Type: Article

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