An Efficient Method for Detecting Fraudulent Transactions Using Classification Algorithms on an Anonymized Credit Card Data Set

Sylvester Manlangit, Sami Azam, Bharanidharan Shanmugam, Krishnan Kannoorpatti, Mirjam Jonkman, Arasu Balasubramaniam

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    Abstract

    Credit card fraudulent transactions are causing businesses and banks to lose time and money. Detecting fraudulent transactions before a transaction is finalized will help businesses and banks to save resources. This research aims to compare the fraud detection accuracy of different sampling techniques and classification algorithms. An efficient method of detecting fraud using machine learning is proposed. Anonymized data set from Kaggle was used for detecting fraudulent transactions. Each transaction has been labeled as either a fraudulent transaction or not. The severe imbalance between fraud and non-fraudulent data caused the algorithms to under-perform. This was addressed with the application of sampling techniques. The combination of undersampling and SMOTE raised the recall accuracy of the classification algorithm. k-NN algorithm showed the highest recall accuracy compared to the other algorithms.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIntelligent Systems Design and Applications - 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA 2017
    EditorsAjith Abraham, Pranab Muhuri, Azah Muda, Niketa Gandhi
    Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
    PublisherSpringer-Verlag London Ltd.
    Pages418-429
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319763484
    ISBN (Print)9783319763477
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
    Event17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA 2017 - Delhi, India
    Duration: 14 Dec 201716 Dec 2017

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
    Volume736
    ISSN (Print)2194-5357

    Conference

    Conference17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA 2017
    Country/TerritoryIndia
    CityDelhi
    Period14/12/1716/12/17

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