The Complexity of Bribery in Network-Based Rating Systems

Abstract

We study the complexity of bribery in a network-based rating system, where individuals are connected in a social network and an attacker, typically a service provider, can influence their rating and increase the overall profit. We derive a number of algorithmic properties of this framework, in particular we show that establishing the existence of an optimal manipulation strategy for the attacker is NP-complete, even with full knowledge of the underlying network structure.

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Text

Grandi et al. "The Complexity of Bribery in Network-Based Rating Systems." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V32I1.11474

Markdown

[Grandi et al. "The Complexity of Bribery in Network-Based Rating Systems." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2018/grandi2018aaai-complexity/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V32I1.11474

BibTeX

@inproceedings{grandi2018aaai-complexity,
  title     = {{The Complexity of Bribery in Network-Based Rating Systems}},
  author    = {Grandi, Umberto and Stewart, James and Turrini, Paolo},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {1047-1054},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V32I1.11474},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2018/grandi2018aaai-complexity/}
}