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In our proposed model, a fuzzy-weighted operation is applied to each data sample considering the fact that different samples may have different importance. This fuzzy-weighted operation is also able to alleviate the influence of noise data and improve the model\u2019s robustness by assigning weights to error constraints. For comparison purposes, three commonly used single machine learning classifiers and three widely used ensemble models are included in our experiments, in order to assess the performance of our proposed FW-LS-SVM and its ensemble version. Hyperlink indicators and uniform resource locator-based features are used to train the prediction models. 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