Identifying correlated bots in Twitter

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 10047 LNCS, Issue , 2016, Pages 14-21

  Chavoshi, Nikan ^a   Hamooni, Hossein ^a   Mueen, Abdullah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNET;

BOT DETECTIONS; HASHING TECHNIQUES; INVARIANT CORRELATION; LABELED DATA; LARGE AMOUNTS; NEW APPROACHES; SENSITIVE HASHING; SYSTEM USE; USER ACTIVITY; WARPINGS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84995520585     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47874-6_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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