Implicit Products in the Decentralized eCommerce Ecosystems

Guoxiu He, Yunhan Yang, Zhuoren Jiang, Yangyang Kang, Xiaozhong Liu, Wei Lu

Abstract: Detecting dark businesses in a decentralized eCommerce ecosystem (e.g. eBay, eBid, and Taobao) is a critical research problem. In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of dark implicit products, the associated buyer seeking behaviors, and features of classification model. Results demonstrate that dark implicit product detection is a challenging problem, while buyer seeking behavior information could be useful as a critical alternative to address this problem.