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Fighting Mass Diffusion Of Fake News On Social Media, Abdallah Musmar
Fighting Mass Diffusion Of Fake News On Social Media, Abdallah Musmar
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Fake news has been considered one of the most challenging problems in the last few years. The effects of spreading fake news over social media platforms are widely observed across the globe as the depth and velocity of fake news reach far more than real news (Vosoughi et al., 2018). The plan for the following dissertation is to investigate the mass spread of fake news across social media and propose a framework to fight the spread of fake news by mixing preventive methods that could hinder the overall percentage of fake news sharing. We plan to create a study on …
Multimodal Data Fusion And Attack Detection In Recommender Systems, Mehmet Aktukmak
Multimodal Data Fusion And Attack Detection In Recommender Systems, Mehmet Aktukmak
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The commercial platforms that use recommender systems can collect relevant information to produce useful recommendations to the platform users. However, these sources usually contain missing values, imbalanced and heterogeneous data, and noisy observations. Such characteristics render the process of exploiting the information nontrivial, as one should carefully address them during the data fusion process. In addition to the degenerative characteristics, some entries can be fake, i.e., they can be the outcomes of malicious intents to manipulate the system. These entries should be eliminated before incorporation to any recommendation task. Detecting such malicious attacks quickly and accurately and then mitigating them …