Dynamic classifier ensemble model for customer classification with imbalanced class distribution

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3668-3675

  Xiao, Jin ^a   Xie, Ling ^a   He, Changzheng ^a   Jiang, Xiaoyi ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost sensitive learning; Customer classification; Dynamic classifier ensemble; Imbalanced class distribution

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ABILITY; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; COST-SENSITIVE; COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; CREDIT SCORING; CROSS-SELLING; CUSTOMER CLASSIFICATION; CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLE; DYNAMIC CLASSIFIER SELECTION; DYNAMIC CLASSIFIERS; DYNAMIC ENSEMBLE; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; ENSEMBLE METHODS; IMBALANCED CLASS; IMBALANCED DATA; RANDOM FORESTS; SELECTION CRITERIA; TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANIES;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION TREES; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

SALES;

EID: 80255137251     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.059     Document Type: Article

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