Advances in Artificial Intelligence Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4013, pp. 347-358.
ISSN/ISBN: 978-3-540-34628-9 DOI: 10.1007/11766247_30
Abstract: Adaptive Benford’s Law [1] is a digital analysis technique that specifies the probabilistic distribution of digits for many commonly occurring phenomena, even for incomplete data records. We combine this digital analysis technique with a reinforcement learning technique to create a new fraud discovery approach. When applied to records of naturally occurring phenomena, our adaptive fraud detection method uses deviations from the expected Benford’s Law distributions as an indicators of anomalous behaviour that are strong indicators of fraud. Through the exploration component of our reinforcement learning method we search for the underlying attributes producing the anomalous behaviour. In a blind test of our approach, using real health and auto insurance data, our Adaptive Fraud Detection method successfully identified actual fraudsters among the test data.
Bibtex:
@incollection{
year={2006},
isbn={978-3-540-34628-9},
booktitle={Advances in Artificial Intelligence},
volume={4013},
series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
editor={Lamontagne, Luc and Marchand, Mario},
doi={10.1007/11766247_30},
title={Adaptive Fraud Detection Using Benford’s Law},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11766247_30},
publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
author={Lu, Fletcher and Boritz, J. Efrim and Covvey, Dominic},
pages={347--358},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): Computer Science