Security of online reputation systems: The evolution of attacks and defenses

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 87-97

  Sun, Yan ^a   Liu, Yuhong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMAZON.COM; HIGH QUALITY; REPUTATION SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85032751561     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2011.942344     Document Type: Article

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