Predicting fraudulent financial statements with machine learning techniques

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3955 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 538-542

  Kotsiantis, Souris ^a   Koumanakos, Euaggelos ^b   Tzelepis, Dimitris ^a   Tampakas, Vasilis ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DECISION TREES; FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (FFS);

DATA PRIVACY; DATA STRUCTURES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745873686     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11752912_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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