A Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Identifying Shill Bidders in Multiple Online Auctions

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Majadi, Nazia
Trevathan, Jarrod
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2018
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Hawai, United States

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Online auctions are highly susceptible to fraud. Shill bidding is where a seller introduces fake bids into an auction to drive up the final price. If the shill bidders are not detected in run-time, innocent bidders will have already been cheated by the time the auction ends. Therefore, it is necessary to detect shill bidders in real-time and take appropriate actions according to the fraud activities. This paper presents a real-time shill bidding detection algorithm to identify the presence of shill bidding in multiple online auctions. The algorithm provides each bidder a Live Shill Score (LSS) indicating the likelihood of their potential involvement in price inflating behavior. The LSS is calculated based on the bidding patterns over a live auction and past bidding history. We have tested our algorithm on data obtained from a series of realistic simulated auctions and also commercial online auctions. Experimental results show that the real-time detection algorithm is able to prune the search space required to detect which bidders are likely to be potential shill bidders.

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Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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© The Author(s) 2018. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Artificial intelligence

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