• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.670-679
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• 2015

With a rapid development of internet, many users these days refer to various recommender sites when buying items, movies, music and more. However, there are malicious users (Sybil) who raise or lower item ratings intentionally in these recommender sites. And as a result, a recommender system (RS) may recommend incomplete or inaccurate results to normal users. We suggest a recommender algorithm to separate ratings generated by users into normal ratings and outlier ratings, and to minimize the effects of malicious users. Specifically, our algorithm first ensures a stable RS against three kinds of attack models (Random attack, Average attack, and Bandwagon attack) which are the main recent security issues in RS. To prove the performance of the method of suggestion, we conducted performance analysis on real world data that we crawled. The performance analysis demonstrated that the suggested method performs well regardless of Sybil size and type when compared to existing algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.1499-1506
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• 2017

The use of smartphones and the launch of various apps have increased exponentially, and malicious apps have also increased. Existing app recommendation systems have been limited to operate based on static information analysis such as ratings, comments, and popularity categories of other users who are online. In this paper, we first propose a robust app recommendation system that realistically uses dynamic information of apps actually used in smartphone and considers static information and dynamic information at the same time. In other words, this paper proposes a robust Android app recommendation system by partially reflecting the time of the app, the frequency of use of the app, the interaction between the app and the app, and the number of contact with the Android kernel. As a result of the performance evaluation, the proposed method proved to be a robust and efficient app recommendation system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.241-248
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• 2018

A Recommender System (RS) is a system that provides optimized information to users in an over-supply situation. The key to RS is to accurately predict the behavior of the user. The Matrix Factorization (MF) method was used for this prediction in the early stage, and according to the recent SNS development, social information is additionally utilized to improve prediction accuracy. In this paper, we use RS internal trust cluster, which was overlooked in previous studies, to further improve performance and analyze the characteristics of trust clusters.