PharmaGuard: Automatic identification of illegal search-indexed online pharmacies

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics, CYBCONF 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 324-329

  Corona, Igino ^a   Contini, Matteo ^a   Ariu, Davide ^a   Giacinto, Giorgio ^a   Roli, Fabio ^a   Lund, Michael ^b   Marinelli, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Detection of Illegal Pharmacies; Human Machine Interaction; Pattern Classification; Search Engines

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CRIME; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY; HIGH-ACCURACY; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; INTERNET USERS; ONLINE PHARMACIES; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84947996088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CYBConf.2015.7175954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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