Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer models for combining multiple sources of evidence in a fraud detection system
This work addresses fraud detection systems, but it appears incremental as it describes existing methods without introducing new techniques or data.
The paper tackles the problem of combining multiple sources of evidence for fraud detection by comparing Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer methods, focusing on their application to estimate a global score without specifying concrete numerical results.
Combining evidence from different sources can be achieved with Bayesian or Dempster-Shafer methods. The first requires an estimate of the priors and likelihoods while the second only needs an estimate of the posterior probabilities and enables reasoning with uncertain information due to imprecision of the sources and with the degree of conflict between them. This paper describes the two methods and how they can be applied to the estimation of a global score in the context of fraud detection.