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 …, 2023 - 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 …

What do we know about customer churn behaviour in the telecommunication industry? A bibliometric analysis of research trends, 1985–2019

J Bhattacharyya, MK Dash - FIIB Business Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The literature on telecommunications customer churn behaviour has grown in importance
and volume since the early 2000s. This study performed a quantitative bibliometric …

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 …

A data-driven approach to improve customer churn prediction based on telecom customer segmentation

T Zhang, S Moro, RF Ramos - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
Numerous valuable clients can be lost to competitors in the telecommunication industry,
leading to profit loss. Thus, understanding the reasons for client churn is vital for …

Imbalanced customer churn classification using a new multi-strategy collaborative processing method

C Rao, Y Xu, X Xiao, F Hu, M Goh - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid advancement of big data and artificial intelligence heralds a dual-edged era of
opportunities and challenges for the banking sector. Indeed, enhancing a model's capability …

Dynamic customer churn prediction strategy for business intelligence using text analytics with evolutionary optimization algorithms

IV Pustokhina, DA Pustokhin, RH Aswathy… - Information Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the digital era, innovations in business intelligence are critical to staying competitive and
popular across the growing business trends. Businesses have begun to investigate the next …

Uplift modeling and its implications for B2B customer churn prediction: A segmentation-based modeling approach

A De Caigny, K Coussement, W Verbeke… - Industrial Marketing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Business-to-business (B2B) customer retention relies heavily on analytics and
predictive modeling to support decision making. Given this, we introduce uplift modeling as …

Swarm intelligence goal-oriented approach to data-driven innovation in customer churn management

J Kozak, K Kania, P Juszczuk, M Mitręga - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
One type of data-driven innovations in management is data-driven decision making.
Confronted with a big amount of data external and internal to their organization's managers …

To do or not to do? Cost-sensitive causal classification with individual treatment effect estimates

W Verbeke, D Olaya, MA Guerry, J Van Belle - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Individual treatment effect models allow optimizing decision-making by predicting the effect
of a treatment on an outcome of interest for individual instances. These predictions allow …

Improving uplift model evaluation on randomized controlled trial data

B Bokelmann, S Lessmann - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Estimating treatment effects is one of the most challenging and important tasks of data
analysts. Personalized medicine, digital marketing, and many other applications demand an …