[HTML][HTML] Explainable AI for operational research: A defining framework, methods, applications, and a research agenda

KW De Bock, K Coussement, A De Caigny… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to understand and explain the outcomes of data analysis methods, with regard to
aiding decision-making, has become a critical requirement for many applications. For …

[HTML][HTML] Credit scoring methods: Latest trends and points to consider

A Markov, Z Seleznyova, V Lapshin - The Journal of Finance and Data …, 2022 - Elsevier
Credit risk is the most significant risk by impact for any bank and financial institution.
Accurate credit risk assessment affects an organisation's balance sheet and income …

Extreme gradient boosting trees with efficient Bayesian optimization for profit-driven customer churn prediction

Z Liu, P Jiang, KW De Bock, J Wang, L Zhang… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Customer retention campaigns increasingly rely on predictive analytics to identify potential
churners in a customer base. Traditionally, customer churn prediction was dependent on …

Advanced customer analytics: Strategic value through integration of relationship-oriented big data

B Kitchens, D Dobolyi, J Li, A Abbasi - Journal of Management …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
As more firms adopt big data analytics to better understand their customers and differentiate
their offerings from competitors, it becomes increasingly difficult to generate strategic value …

Profit-driven weighted classifier with interpretable ability for customer churn prediction

P Jiang, Z Liu, MZ Abedin, J Wang, W Yang, Q Dong - Omega, 2024 - Elsevier
Customer churn prediction methods aim to identify customers with the highest probability of
attrition, improve the effectiveness of customer retention campaigns, and maximize profits …

The value of big data for credit scoring: Enhancing financial inclusion using mobile phone data and social network analytics

M Óskarsdóttir, C Bravo, C Sarraute, J Vanthienen… - Applied Soft …, 2019 - Elsevier
Credit scoring is without a doubt one of the oldest applications of analytics. In recent years, a
multitude of sophisticated classification techniques have been developed to improve the …

Two-stage consumer credit risk modelling using heterogeneous ensemble learning

M Papouskova, P Hajek - Decision support systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Modelling consumer credit risk is a crucial task for banks and non-bank financial institutions
to support decision-making on granting loans. To model the overall credit risk of a consumer …

Incorporating textual information in customer churn prediction models based on a convolutional neural network

A De Caigny, K Coussement, KW De Bock… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the value added by incorporating textual data into customer churn
prediction (CCP) models. It extends the previous literature by benchmarking convolutional …

A survey on churn analysis in various business domains

J Ahn, J Hwang, D Kim, H Choi, S Kang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present churn prediction techniques that have been released so far. Churn
prediction is used in the fields of Internet services, games, insurance, and management …

Dynamic behavior based churn prediction in mobile telecom

N Alboukaey, A Joukhadar, N Ghneim - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Customer churn is one of the most challenging problems that affects revenue and customer
base in mobile telecom operators. The success of retention campaigns depends not only on …