Analysis on Bidding Behaviours for Detecting Shill Bidders in Online Auctions

Autor: Nazia Majadi, Jarrod Trevathan, Neil W. Bergmann
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: CIT
DOI: 10.1109/cit.2016.48
Popis: Online auction is a popular electronic marketplacethat allows buyers and sellers to purchase and sell productsin an efficient way. In spite of popularity of online auctions, there are many fraudulent bidding or selling behaviours that canoccur during an auction (e.g., shill bidding, bid shielding, etc.).Among auction fruads, shill bidding is one of the hardest typesof auction fraud to detect. Researchers have developed frauddetection and prevention methods for combating such fraud. However, it is difficult to effectively identify and recognise biddingbehaviours for detecting shill bidders in online auctions. Thispaper presents a brief overview of major research on biddingpatterns for detecting shill bidders in online auctions. Moreover, our analysis result illustrates the characteristics of such biddingpatterns represent strong signs of shill bidding when monitoringonline auctions to combat this fraud. We also present case studiesfor identifying shill bidding behaviours in the datasets of eBay.
Databáze: OpenAIRE