Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
8-2012
Abstract
In service-based industries, churn poses a significant threat to the integrity of the user communities and profitability of the service providers. As such, research on churn prediction methods has been actively pursued, involving either intrinsic, user profile factors or extrinsic, social factors. However, existing approaches often address each type of factors separately, thus lacking a comprehensive view of churn behaviors. In this paper, we propose a new churn prediction approach based on collective classification (CC), which accounts for both the intrinsic and extrinsic factors by utilizing the local features of, and dependencies among, individuals during prediction steps. We evaluate our CC approach using real data provided by an established mobile social networking site, with a primary focus on prediction of churn in chat activities. Our results demonstrate that using CC and social features derived from interaction records and network structure yields substantially improved prediction in comparison to using conventional classification and user profile features only.
Keywords
Chat activity, Collective churn prediction method, Collective classification, Interaction record, Network structure, Service provider profitability, Service-based industry, Social factor, Social network, User community, User profile factor
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems
Research Areas
Data Management and Analytics; Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining: 26-29 August 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
First Page
210
Last Page
214
ISBN
9781467324977
Identifier
10.1109/ASONAM.2012.44
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
OENTARYO, Richard J.; Ee-peng LIM; David LO; ZHU, Feida; and PRASETYO, Philips K..
Collective Churn Prediction in Social Network. (2012). Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining: 26-29 August 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. 210-214. Research Collection School Of Information Systems.
Available at: http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3177
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Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2012.44