Privacy preserving churn prediction

  • Authors:
  • Shuting Xu;Shuhua Lai;Manying Qiu

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA;Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA;Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Churn prediction is an important component of customer retention to predict whether a current customer decides to take business elsewhere or voluntarily terminates service, so marketing campaigns can target at the potential churners for retention efforts. In this paper we provide a strategy to protect customers' privacy in churn prediction. First of all, we demonstrate how to use data distortion to mask a telecom customer dataset, and then apply churn prediction methods to the distorted data. Since the distorted data are so different from the original data the privacy of customer is preserved, but the prediction methods we proposed will not compromise the accuracy of churn prediction. The performance of several data distortion methods are compared and evaluated.