A fraudster in a haystack: Crafting a classifier for non-delivery fraud prediction at online auction sites

Proceedings - 14th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 233-239

  Almendra, Vinicius ^a   Enachescu, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

boosting; e commerce; fraud prediction; machine learning; non delivery fraud; one class SVM; online auction sites

Indexed keywords

BOOSTING; EXPERT ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; NON-DELIVERY FRAUD; ONE CLASS-SVM; ONLINE AUCTION SITES; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; PRODUCT CATEGORIES;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; CRIME; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84875669338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYNASC.2012.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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