A novel ensemble learning-based approach for click fraud detection in mobile advertising

Kasun S. Perera, Bijay Neupane, Mustafa Amir Faisal, Zeyar Aung, Wei Lee Woon

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Abstract

By diverting funds away from legitimate partners (a.k.a publishers), click fraud represents a serious drain on advertising budgets and can seriously harm the viability of the internet advertising market. As such, fraud detection algorithms which can identify fraudulent behavior based on user click patterns are extremely valuable. Based on the BuzzCity dataset, we propose a novel approach for click fraud detection which is based on a set of new features derived from existing attributes. The proposed model is evaluated in terms of the resulting precision, recall and the area under the ROC curve. A final ensemble model based on 6 different learning algorithms proved to be stable with respect to all 3 performance indicators. Our final model shows improved results on training, validation and test datasets, thus demonstrating its generalizability to different datasets.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationMining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration - First International Conference, MIKE 2013, Proceedings
Pages370-382
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event1st International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2013 - Tamil Nadu, India
Duration: 18 Dec 201320 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8284 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2013
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityTamil Nadu
Period18/12/1320/12/13

Keywords

  • Click fraud
  • ensemble model
  • feature extraction
  • skewed data

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