Investigating the effectiveness of profile injecting attack against recommender system

PROFILE INJECTING ATTACK AGAINST RECOMMENDER SYSTEM 6 PROFILE INJECTING ATTACK AGAINST RECOMMENDER SYSTEM Author note: Chapter 1: Introduction 2 1.1 Background of the study 2 1.2 Aims of the study 2 1.3 Objectives of the study 2 1.4 Research Questions 2 1.5 Problem Statement 3 1.6 Rationale of the study 3 1.7 Structure of the study 5 Chapter 2: Literature review 6 2.1 Introduction 6 2.2 Overview of the recommender system 6 2.3 Analysis of profile injecting attack 7 2.4 Effectiveness of profile injecting attack against