DeBot: Twitter bot detection via warped correlation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn 0, Issue , 2016, Pages 817-822

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

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNET; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS);

BOT DETECTIONS; DETECTION METHODS; DETECTION SYSTEM; LABELED DATA; LARGE AMOUNTS; LONG DURATION; MOST LIKELY; SENSITIVE HASHING; SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES; USER FEATURE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85014517441     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2016.86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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