Detecting imprudence of 'reliable' sellers in online auction sites

• Main Authors: Liu, Xin, Datta, Anwitaman, Fang, Hui, Zhang, Jie
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101077; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16771
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Reputation systems deployed in popular online auction sites simply aggregate feedback about a seller's past transactions. By studying a real auction site dataset, we infer that a non-negligible fraction of unsatisfactory transactions involve sellers with high reputation. Such a phenomenon can b...