Decision Making Support System for Managing Advertisers By Ad Fraud Detection

Gabryel, Marcin; Scherer, Magdalena M.; Sułkowski, Łukasz; Damaševičius, Robertas

doi:10.2478/jaiscr-2021-0020

Abstract

Efficient lead management allows substantially enhancing online channel marketing programs. In the paper, we classify website traffic into human- and bot-origin ones. We use feedforward neural networks with embedding layers. Moreover, we use one-hot encoding for categorical data. The data of mouse clicks come from seven large retail stores and the data of lead classification from three financial institutions. The data are collected by a JavaScript code embedded into HTML pages. The three proposed models achieved relatively high accuracy in detecting artificially generated traffic.

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Decision Making Support System for Managing Advertisers By Ad Fraud Detection

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