Bazaar: Strengthening user reputations in online marketplaces

Proceedings of NSDI 2011: 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 183-196

  Post, Ansley ^b,c   Shah, Vijit ^a   Mislove, Alan ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FLOW BASED; ON-LINE MARKETPLACES; REAL-WORLD; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SYBIL ATTACK; USER REPUTATIONS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84880521520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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