2011
Delgado-Gómez, David; Aguado, David; Lopez-Castroman, Jorge; Santacruz, Carlos; Artés-Rodríguez, Antonio
Improving Sale Performance Prediction Using Support Vector Machines Artículo de revista
En: Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 38, no 5, pp. 5129–5132, 2011.
Resumen | Enlaces | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Recruitment process, Sale performance prediction, Support vector machines
@article{Delgado-Gomez2011a,
title = {Improving Sale Performance Prediction Using Support Vector Machines},
author = {David Delgado-G\'{o}mez and David Aguado and Jorge Lopez-Castroman and Carlos Santacruz and Antonio Art\'{e}s-Rodr\'{i}guez},
url = {http://www.tsc.uc3m.es/~antonio/papers/P41_2011_Improving Sale Performance Prediction Using Support Vector Machines.pdf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417410011322},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
volume = {38},
number = {5},
pages = {5129--5132},
abstract = {In this article, an expert system based on support vector machines is developed to predict the sale performance of some insurance company candidates. The system predicts the performance of these candidates based on some scores, which are measurements of cognitive characteristics, personality, selling skills and biodata. An experiment is conducted to compare the accuracy of the proposed system with respect to previously reported systems which use discriminant functions or decision trees. Results show that the proposed system is able to improve the accuracy of a baseline linear discriminant based system by more than 10% and that also exceeds the state of the art systems by almost 5%. The proposed approach can help to reduce considerably the direct and indirect expenses of the companies.},
keywords = {Recruitment process, Sale performance prediction, Support vector machines},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
In this article, an expert system based on support vector machines is developed to predict the sale performance of some insurance company candidates. The system predicts the performance of these candidates based on some scores, which are measurements of cognitive characteristics, personality, selling skills and biodata. An experiment is conducted to compare the accuracy of the proposed system with respect to previously reported systems which use discriminant functions or decision trees. Results show that the proposed system is able to improve the accuracy of a baseline linear discriminant based system by more than 10% and that also exceeds the state of the art systems by almost 5%. The proposed approach can help to reduce considerably the direct and indirect expenses of the companies.
Delgado-Gómez, David; Blasco-Fontecilla, Hilario; Alegria, AnaLucia A; Legido-Gil, Teresa; Artés-Rodríguez, Antonio; Baca-García, Enrique
Improving the Accuracy of Suicide Attempter Classification Artículo de revista
En: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 52, no 3, pp. 165–168, 2011.
Resumen | Enlaces | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Barratt’s impulsiveness scale, Boosting, International personality disorder evaluation scre, Suicide prediction, Support vector machines
@article{Delgado-Gomez2011b,
title = {Improving the Accuracy of Suicide Attempter Classification},
author = {David Delgado-G\'{o}mez and Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla and AnaLucia A Alegria and Teresa Legido-Gil and Antonio Art\'{e}s-Rodr\'{i}guez and Enrique Baca-Garc\'{i}a},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0933365711000595},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Artificial Intelligence in Medicine},
volume = {52},
number = {3},
pages = {165--168},
abstract = {OBJECTIVE Psychometrical questionnaires such as the Barrat’s impulsiveness scale version 11 (BIS-11) have been used in the assessment of suicidal behavior. Traditionally, BIS-11 items have been considered as equally valuable but this might not be true. The main objective of this article is to test the discriminative ability of the BIS-11 and the international personality disorder evaluation screening questionnaire (IPDE-SQ) to predict suicide attempter (SA) status using different classification techniques. In addition, we examine the discriminative capacity of individual items from both scales. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two experiments aimed at evaluating the accuracy of different classification techniques were conducted. The answers of 879 individuals (345 SA, 384 healthy blood donors, and 150 psychiatric inpatients) to the BIS-11 and IPDE-SQ were used to compare the classification performance of two techniques that have successfully been applied in pattern recognition issues, Boosting and support vector machines (SVM) with respect to linear discriminant analysis, Fisher linear discriminant analysis, and the traditional psychometrical approach. RESULTS The most discriminative BIS-11 and IPDE-SQ items are “I am self controlled” (Item 6) and “I often feel empty inside” (item 40), respectively. The SVM classification accuracy was 76.71% for the BIS-11 and 80.26% for the IPDE-SQ. CONCLUSIONS The IPDE-SQ items have better discriminative abilities than the BIS-11 items for classifying SA. Moreover, IPDE-SQ is able to obtain better SA and non-SA classification results than the BIS-11. In addition, SVM outperformed the other classification techniques in both questionnaires.},
keywords = {Barratt’s impulsiveness scale, Boosting, International personality disorder evaluation scre, Suicide prediction, Support vector machines},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
OBJECTIVE Psychometrical questionnaires such as the Barrat’s impulsiveness scale version 11 (BIS-11) have been used in the assessment of suicidal behavior. Traditionally, BIS-11 items have been considered as equally valuable but this might not be true. The main objective of this article is to test the discriminative ability of the BIS-11 and the international personality disorder evaluation screening questionnaire (IPDE-SQ) to predict suicide attempter (SA) status using different classification techniques. In addition, we examine the discriminative capacity of individual items from both scales. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two experiments aimed at evaluating the accuracy of different classification techniques were conducted. The answers of 879 individuals (345 SA, 384 healthy blood donors, and 150 psychiatric inpatients) to the BIS-11 and IPDE-SQ were used to compare the classification performance of two techniques that have successfully been applied in pattern recognition issues, Boosting and support vector machines (SVM) with respect to linear discriminant analysis, Fisher linear discriminant analysis, and the traditional psychometrical approach. RESULTS The most discriminative BIS-11 and IPDE-SQ items are “I am self controlled” (Item 6) and “I often feel empty inside” (item 40), respectively. The SVM classification accuracy was 76.71% for the BIS-11 and 80.26% for the IPDE-SQ. CONCLUSIONS The IPDE-SQ items have better discriminative abilities than the BIS-11 items for classifying SA. Moreover, IPDE-SQ is able to obtain better SA and non-SA classification results than the BIS-11. In addition, SVM outperformed the other classification techniques in both questionnaires.