Back propagation networks for credit card fraud prediction using stratified personalized data

  • Authors:
  • Rong-Chang Chen;Chih-Yi Lai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Logistics Engineering and Management, National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Logistics Engineering and Management, National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • ISP'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Information Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A personalized approach (PA) has been presented recently to prevent fraud in using credit cards. This new approach proposes to predict a user's new transactions by his/her personalized model instead of using multiple-user approaches (MUA) which are based on transaction data of many other users. This approach has shown its potential to deal with the credit card fraud problem. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of back propagation networks (BPN) on predicting credit card fraud using PA. The trained and tested data are stratified, i.e., each class has representative data. To facilitate the decision of the network architecture, Bubble charts are employed. Results from this study show that with stratified data, BPN can obtain good prediction performance. In addition, Bubble chart is a convenient tool to help decide the architecture of the network.