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Chasing Offensive Conduct in Social Networks: A Reputation-Based Practical Approach for Frisber

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Santiago Pina Ros,

Ángel Pina Canelles,

Manuel Gil Pérez,

Félix Gómez Mármol,

Gregorio Martínez PérezAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 15, Issue 4

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/2797139

Published: 07 December 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Social network users take advantage of anonymity to share rumors or gossip about others, making it important to provide means to report offensive conduct. This article presents a proposal to automatically manage these reports. We consider not only the users’ public behavior, but also private messages between users. The automatic approach is based, in both cases, on the reporters’ reputation along with other metrics intrinsic to social networks. Promising results from adopting the proposed reporting methods on Frisber, a geolocalized social network in production, are presented as well as some experiments based on real data extracted from Frisber.

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Chasing Offensive Conduct in Social Networks: A Reputation-Based Practical Approach for Frisber
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
2. Security and privacy
  1. Formal methods and theory of security
    1. Trust frameworks

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 15, Issue 4

Special Issue on Trust in Social Networks and Systems

December 2015

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ISSN:1533-5399

EISSN:1557-6051

DOI:10.1145/2851090

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Published: 07 December 2015

Accepted: 01 June 2015

Revised: 01 April 2015

Received: 01 August 2014

Published in TOIT Volume 15, Issue 4

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