Title
Shilling Attack Detection In Recommender Systems Via Selecting Patterns Analysis
Abstract
Collaborative filtering (CF) has been widely used in recommender systems to generate personalized recommendations. However, recommender systems using CF are vulnerable to shilling attacks, in which attackers inject fake profiles to manipulate recommendation results. Thus, shilling attacks pose a threat to the credibility of recommender systems. Previous studies mainly derive features from characteristics of item ratings in user profiles to detect attackers, but the methods suffer from low accuracy when attackers adopt new rating patterns. To overcome this drawback, we derive features from properties of item popularity in user profiles, which are determined by users' different selecting patterns. This feature extraction method is based on the prior knowledge that attackers select items to rate with man-made rules while normal users do this according to their inner preferences. Then, machine learning classification approaches are exploited to make use of these features to detect and remove attackers. Experiment results on the MovieLens dataset and Amazon review dataset show that our proposed method improves detection performance. In addition, the results justify the practical value of features derived from selecting patterns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1587/transinf.2015EDP7500
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature extraction, popularity, selecting patterns, recommender systems, shilling attacks
Recommender system,World Wide Web,Computer science,Popularity,Feature extraction
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E99D
10
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
24
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wentao Li13010.00
Min Gao21119.52
Hua Li335875.80
Jun Zeng4327.79
Qingyu Xiong5369.74
Sachio Hirokawa621658.68