The presence of Web spam in query results is one of the critical challenges facing search engines today. While search engines try to combat the impact of spam pages on their resul...
Research shows that comment spamming (comments which are unsolicited, unrelated, abusive, hateful, commercial advertisements etc) in online discussion forums has become a common p...
The importance of risk in trust-based systems is well established. This paper presents a novel model of risk and decision-making based on economic theory. Use of the model is illus...
Nathan Dimmock, Jean Bacon, David Ingram, Ken Mood...
Social networks are popular for online communities. This paper evaluates the risk of sophisticated context-aware spam that could result from information sharing on social networks...
This paper presents the results of a case study in which outbound SPAM, here referring to excessive amounts of bulk-generated email, is suppressed using dynamic Port 25 blocking. ...