The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

Computer

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 38-46

  Subrahmanian, V S ^a   Azaria, Amos ^b   Durst, Skylar ^c   Kagan, Vadim ^c   Galstyan, Aram ^d   Lerman, Kristina ^d   Zhu, Linhong ^d   Ferrara, Emilio ^e   Flammini, Alessandro ^e   Menczer, Filippo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SentiMetrix ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anomaly detection; intrusion detection; malware mitigation; security; social networks

Indexed keywords

INTRUSION DETECTION;

ANOMALY DETECTION; FACEBOOK; MALWARE MITIGATION; SECURITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; TERRORIST GROUPS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84976583956     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2016.183     Document Type: Article

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