Churn prediction in a real online social network using local community analysis

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 282-288

  Ngonmang, Blaise ^a,b   Viennet, Emmanuel ^a   Tchuente, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Churn prediction; Local community; Social networks; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

CHURN PREDICTIONS; LOCAL COMMUNITY; NOVEL ALGORITHM; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PATHOLOGICAL CASE; REAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; STATISTICAL MODELS; USER BEHAVIORS;

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FORECASTING; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874224428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2012.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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