Behavioral analysis of review fraud: Linking malicious crowdsourcing to Amazon and beyond

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 560-563

  Kaghazgaran, Parisa ^a   Caverlee, James ^a   Alfifi, Majid ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS; BURSTINESS; CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; LONG TERM STUDY; ONLINE REVIEWS; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

CRIME;

EID: 85029455016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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