Designing an expert system for fraud detection in private telecommunications networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 11559-11569

  Hilas, Constantinos S ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data mining applications; Expert systems; Fraud detection; Telecommunications; User modeling

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING APPLICATIONS; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FRAUD DETECTION; FRAUDSTER; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; LEGITIMATE USERS; NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR; REAL WORLD DATA; TELECOM; TELECOM PROVIDERS; USER MODELING;

DATA MINING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MINING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 67349097789     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.03.031     Document Type: Article

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