Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness

Consumer Debt has risen to be an important problem of modern societies, generating a lot of research in order to understand the nature of consumer indebtness, which so far its modelling has been carried out by statistical models. In this work we show that Computational Intelligence can offer a more...

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Main Authors: Ladas, Alexandros, Garibaldi, Jonathan M., Scarpel, Rodrigo, Aickelin, Uwe
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Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3350/
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author Ladas, Alexandros
Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
Scarpel, Rodrigo
Aickelin, Uwe
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Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
Scarpel, Rodrigo
Aickelin, Uwe
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description Consumer Debt has risen to be an important problem of modern societies, generating a lot of research in order to understand the nature of consumer indebtness, which so far its modelling has been carried out by statistical models. In this work we show that Computational Intelligence can offer a more holistic approach that is more suitable for the complex relationships an indebtness dataset has and Linear Regression cannot uncover. In particular, as our results show, Neural Networks achieve the best performance in modelling consumer indebtness, especially when they manage to incorporate the significant and experimentally verified results of the Data Mining process in the model, exploiting the flexibility Neural Networks offer in designing their topology. This novel method forms an elaborate framework to model Consumer indebtness that can be extended to any other real world application.
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spelling nottingham-33502020-05-04T16:54:36Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3350/ Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness Ladas, Alexandros Garibaldi, Jonathan M. Scarpel, Rodrigo Aickelin, Uwe Consumer Debt has risen to be an important problem of modern societies, generating a lot of research in order to understand the nature of consumer indebtness, which so far its modelling has been carried out by statistical models. In this work we show that Computational Intelligence can offer a more holistic approach that is more suitable for the complex relationships an indebtness dataset has and Linear Regression cannot uncover. In particular, as our results show, Neural Networks achieve the best performance in modelling consumer indebtness, especially when they manage to incorporate the significant and experimentally verified results of the Data Mining process in the model, exploiting the flexibility Neural Networks offer in designing their topology. This novel method forms an elaborate framework to model Consumer indebtness that can be extended to any other real world application. 2014-09-04 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Ladas, Alexandros, Garibaldi, Jonathan M., Scarpel, Rodrigo and Aickelin, Uwe (2014) Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness. In: 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 6-11 July 2014, Beijing, China. Data Mining Digital Economy Neural Networks Regression http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6889760
spellingShingle Data Mining
Digital Economy
Neural Networks
Regression
Ladas, Alexandros
Garibaldi, Jonathan M.
Scarpel, Rodrigo
Aickelin, Uwe
Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
title Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
title_full Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
title_fullStr Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
title_full_unstemmed Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
title_short Augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
title_sort augmented neural networks for modelling consumer indebtness
topic Data Mining
Digital Economy
Neural Networks
Regression
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3350/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3350/