DocumentCode :
1280025
Title :
Distributed data mining in credit card fraud detection
Author :
Chan, Philip K. ; Fan, Wei ; Prodromidis, A.L. ; Stolfo, Salvatore J.
Author_Institution :
Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Volume :
14
Issue :
6
fYear :
1999
Firstpage :
67
Lastpage :
74
Abstract :
Credit card transactions continue to grow in number, taking an ever-larger share of the US payment system and leading to a higher rate of stolen account numbers and subsequent losses by banks. Improved fraud detection thus has become essential to maintain the viability of the US payment system. Banks have used early fraud warning systems for some years. Large scale data-mining techniques can improve the state of the art in commercial practice. Scalable techniques to analyze massive amounts of transaction data that efficiently compute fraud detectors in a timely manner is an important problem, especially for e-commerce. Besides scalability and efficiency, the fraud-detection task exhibits technical problems that include skewed distributions of training data and nonuniform cost per error, both of which have not been widely studied in the knowledge-discovery and data mining community. In this article, we survey and evaluate a number of techniques that address these three main issues concurrently. Our proposed methods of combining multiple learned fraud detectors under a "cost model" are general and demonstrably useful; our empirical results demonstrate that we can significantly reduce loss due to fraud through distributed data mining of fraud models
Keywords :
data mining; electronic commerce; financial data processing; fraud; US payment system; credit card fraud detection; distributed data mining; early fraud warning systems; fraud detection; knowledge discovery; multiple learned fraud detectors; Art; Computer aided software engineering; Costs; Credit cards; Data mining; Detectors; Internet; Marketing and sales; US Department of Transportation; US Government;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1094-7167
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/5254.809570
Filename :
809570
Link To Document :
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