Detecting online auction shilling frauds using supervised learning

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3027-3040

  Tsang, Sidney ^a   Koh, Yun Sing ^a   Dobbie, Gillian ^a   Alam, Shafiq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Online auction fraud; Supervised fraud detection

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; DETECTION ACCURACY; FRAUD DETECTION; ONLINE AUCTION SITES; ONLINE AUCTIONS; REAL-WORLD DATASETS; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOURS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

CRIME;

EID: 84890555064     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.10.033     Document Type: Article

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