An application of decision trees for rule extraction towards telecommunications fraud detection

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

Volumn 4693 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 1112-1121

  Hilas, Constantinos S ^a   Sahalos, John N ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Fraud detection; Rule extraction; Telecommunications; User profiles

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTRUSION DETECTION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES;

BEHAVIOR MODELING; FRAUD DETECTION; RULE EXTRACTION; USER PROFILES;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 38049092517     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74827-4_139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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