A probabilistic approach to fraud detection in telecommunications

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 26, Issue , 2012, Pages 246-258

  Olszewski, Dominik ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fraud detection; Kullback Leibler divergence; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Telecommunications; User profiling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FRAUD DETECTION; KL-DIVERGENCE; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; USER PROFILING;

COMPUTER CRIME; CRIME; STATISTICS;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 84155186545     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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