Discovery of ranking fraud for mobile apps

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 74-87

  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

Evidence aggregation; Historical ranking records; Mobile apps; Ranking fraud detection; Rating and review

Indexed keywords

RATING;

AGGREGATION METHODS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FRAUD DETECTION; FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM; HISTORICAL RANKING RECORDS; HOLISTIC VIEW; MOBILE APPS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS;

CRIME;

EID: 84916925418     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2014.2320733     Document Type: Article

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