Securing recommender systems against shilling attacks using social-based clustering

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 616-624

  Zhang, Xiang Liang ^a   Lee, Tak Man Desmond ^a   Pitsilis, Georgios ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

clustering; collaborative filtering; recommender system; shilling attack; social trust

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; NEW SOURCES; SHILLING ATTACK; SOCIAL TRUST; SOCIAL-BASED; USER COMMUNITIES;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880051599     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-013-1362-0     Document Type: Article

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