References

@inproceedings{benevenuto09@sigir,
 author = {F. Benevenuto and T. Rodrigues and V. Almeida and J. Almeida and M. Gonçalves},
 title = {Detecting Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Social Networks},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Int’l SIGIR Conference},
 month = {July},
 address = {Boston, MA, USA},
 year = {2009}
}

@article{benevenuto@tsmcb12,

author = {Fabr\'{\i}cio Benevenuto and Tiago Rodrigues and Adriano Veloso and Jussara Almeida and Marcos Gonçalves and Virgílio Almeida},

title = {Practical Detection of Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Sharing Systems},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B},

volume = {42},

number = {3},

year = {2012},

pages = {688--701},

publisher = {IEEE}

}

If you want to use our dataset, please let us know by email at benevenuto AT gmail.com.

Database

The dataset used in the paper Detecting Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Social Networks, published in The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'09) - Boston, MA, USA, July 2009, is available. We also published an extended version of this paper in a journal.

The file is in LibSVM input file format. Each line represents a user from our test collection. The first column is the user class (i.e., 1 for promoters, 2 for spammers, and 3 for legitimates) and the subsequent columns are numbered from 1 to 60 and represent the user characteristics as explained in the list below. The attributes from 1 to 42 are video attributes which capture specific properties of the videos uploaded by each user. The set of attributes from 43 to 50 capture the social relationships established between users from video response interaction. Finally, attributes from 50 to 60 are related to individual characteristics of user behavior.

1. Total number of views of all videos uploaded
2. Total number of views of all video responses
3. Total number of views of all responded videos
4. Total duration of all videos uploaded
5. Total duration of all video responses
6. Total duration of all responded videos
7. Total number of ratings of all videos uploaded
8. Total number of ratings of all video responses
9. Total number of ratings of all responded videos
10. Total number of comments of all videos uploaded
11. Total number of comments of all video responses
12. Total number of comments of all responded videos
13. Total number of times that all videos uploaded were added as favorite
14. Total number of times that all video responses were added as favorite
15. Total number of times that all responded videos were added as favorite
16. Total number of honors of all videos uploaded
17. Total number of honors of all video responses
18. Total number of honors of all responded videos
19. Total number of links of all videos uploaded
20. Total number of links of all video responses
21. Total number of links of all responded videos
22. Average number of views of all videos uploaded
23. Average number of views of all video responses
24. Average number of views of all responded videos
25. Average duration of all videos uploaded
26. Average duration of all video responses
27. Average duration of all responded videos
28. Average number of ratings of all videos uploaded
29. Average number of ratings of all video responses
30. Average number of ratings of all responded videos
31. Average number of comments of all videos uploaded
32. Average number of comments of all video responses
33. Average number of comments of all responded videos
34. Average number of times that all videos uploaded were added as favorite
35. Average number of times that all video responses were added as favorite
36. Average number of times that all responded videos were added as favorite
37. Average number of honors of all videos uploaded
38. Average number of honors of all video responses
39. Average number of honors of all responded videos
40. Average number of links of all videos uploaded
41. Average number of links of all video responses
42. Average number of links of all responded videos
43. Clustering Coefficient
44. Reciprocity
45. UserRank
46. Betweenness
47. Assortativity: in-in degree
48. Assortativity: in-out degree
49. Assortativity: out-in degree
50. Assortativity: out-out degree
51. Number of responses posted
52. Number of responses received
53. Number of friends
54. Number of videos watched
55. Number of videos uploaded
56. Number of videos added as favorite
57. Number of subscriptions
58. Number of subscribers
59. Maximum number of videos uploaded in 24 hours
60. Average time between video uploads