Title
DNA-inspired online behavioral modeling and its application to spambot detection.
Abstract
A novel, simple, and effective approach to modeling online user behavior extracts and analyzes digital DNA sequences from user online actions and uses Twitter as a benchmark to test the proposal. Specifically, the model obtains an incisive and compact DNA-inspired characterization of user actions. Then, standard DNA analysis techniques discriminate between genuine and spambot accounts on Twitter. ...
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MIS.2016.29
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
DNA,Twitter,Biological information theory,Fingerprint recognition,Data mining,Media,Bioinformatics,Knowledge management,Social sciences
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1541-1672
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cresci, S.123521.79
Roberto Di Pietro22337162.88
Marinella Petrocchi336244.01
Angelo Spognardi439130.19
Maurizio Tesconi528132.06