Online human-bot interactions: Detection, estimation, and characterization

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 280-289

  Varol, Onur ^a   Ferrara, Emilio ^b   Davis, Clayton A ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACTIVITY TIME; AUTONOMOUS ENTITIES; CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; CONTENT FLOW; HIGH-ACCURACY; NETWORK PATTERN; TRAINING DATA;

BOTNET;

EID: 85026345290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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