DNA-Inspired Online Behavioral Modeling and Its Application to Spambot Detection

Cresci, Stefano, Di Pietro, Roberto, Petrocchi, Marinella, Spognardi, Angelo, Tesconi, Maurizio·2016·IEEE Intelligent Systems
DOI 10.1109/mis.2016.29

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