Ranking fraud detection for mobile apps: A holistic view

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 619-628

  Zhu, Hengshu ^a   Xiong, Hui ^b   Ge, Yong ^c   Chen, Enhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile apps; Ranking fraud detection

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION METHODS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FRAUD DETECTION; FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM; HOLISTIC VIEW; MOBILE APPS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS; TIME-PERIODS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

CRIME;

EID: 84889587593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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