← All authors Bart Baesens KU Leuven (per OpenAlex) · ORCID · OpenAlex
102 papers in scope · 101 published · 2 on the econ.EM arXiv · 9,557 citations · h-index 46 (over the papers listed here)
Papers (1 of 102)
Network Analytics for Anti-money Laundering—A Systematic Literature Review and Experimental Evaluation
published 2025 · INFORMS Journal on Data Science · 6 citations · first circulated 2024
Advances in Continual Graph Learning for Anti‐Money Laundering Systems: A Comprehensive Review
published 2025 · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics · 7 citations
Anticipating delays in recruitment: Explainable machine learning for the prediction of hard-to-fill online job vacancies
published 2025 · European Journal of Operational Research · 1 citations
2024 Lyn Thomas Impact Medal: Professor Bart Baesens
published 2025 · Impact
Code and Data for "Network Analytics for Anti-money Laundering—A Systematic Literature Review and Experimental Evaluation"
published 2025 · INFORMS Journal on Data Science · 4 citations
Editorial: Special issue on “Smart Credit” and “Microfinance, Credit Risk and Fintech”
published 2024 · International Journal of Financial Engineering · 1 citations
with Zhiyong Li, Baofeng Shi, Zhipeng Zhang, Yizhe Dong, Anthony Bellotti
Network analytics for insurance fraud detection: a critical case study
published 2024 · European Actuarial Journal · 6 citations
Explainable Learning Analytics: Assessing the stability of student success prediction models by means of explainable AI
published 2024 · Decision Support Systems · 56 citations
with Elena Tiukhova, Pavani Vemuri, Nidia López Flores, Anna Sigríður Íslind, María Óskarsdóttir, Stephan Poelmans, Monique Snoeck
INFLECT-DGNN: Influencer Prediction With Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
published 2024 · IEEE Access · 3 citations · first circulated 2023
with Elena Tiukhova, Emiliano Penaloza, María Óskarsdóttir, Monique Snoeck, Cristián Bravo
Discovering Unusual Study Patterns Using Anomaly Detection and XAI
published 2024 · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 6 citations
with Elena Tiukhova, Pavani Vemuri, María Óskarsdóttir, Stephan Poelmans, Monique Snoeck
A new perspective on classification: Optimally allocating limited resources to uncertain tasks
published 2023 · Decision Support Systems · 9 citations · first circulated 2022
Explainable Deep Learning to Classify Royal Navy Ships
published 2023 · IEEE Access · 5 citations
with Amy Adams, Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz, Ann-Sophie Baesens, Seppe vanden Broucke
Explainable AI for Operational Research: A defining framework, methods, applications, and a research agenda
published 2023 · European Journal of Operational Research · 122 citations
Boosting credit risk models
published 2023 · The British Accounting Review · 6 citations
with Kristien Smedts
Computational Efficient Approximations of the Concordance Probability in a Big Data Setting
published 2023 · Big Data · 1 citations · first circulated 2021
using the XGBoost classification algorithm and model interpretability techniques
published 2023 · The Journal of Credit Risk · 2 citations
with Arsh Anand, Rosanne Vanpée
How to improve prediction using behavior modification?
published 2022 · International Journal of Forecasting · 2 citations
CATCHM: A novel network-based credit card fraud detection method using node representation learning
published 2022 · Decision Support Systems · 109 citations
with Rafaël Van Belle, Jochen De Weerdt
Predict-then-optimize or predict-and-optimize? An empirical evaluation of cost-sensitive learning strategies
published 2022 · Information Sciences · 71 citations
Instance-dependent cost-sensitive learning: do we really need it?
published 2022 · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2 citations
Introduction to the Minitrack on Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning
published 2022 · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Special issue on feature engineering editorial
published 2021 · Machine Learning · 204 citations
robROSE: A robust approach for dealing with imbalanced data in fraud detection
published 2021 · Statistical Methods & Applications · 3 citations · first circulated 2020
Instance-dependent cost-sensitive learning for detecting transfer fraud
published 2021 · European Journal of Operational Research · 3 citations · first circulated 2020
Deep learning for credit scoring: Do or don’t?
published 2021 · European Journal of Operational Research · 223 citations
Predicting take-up of home loan offers using tree-based ensemble models: A South African case study
published 2021 · South African Journal of Science · 3 citations
with Tanja Verster, Samistha Harcharan, Lizette Bezuidenhout
A hierarchical mixture cure model with unobserved heterogeneity for credit risk
published 2021 · Econometrics and Statistics · 8 citations · first circulated 2020
Data engineering for fraud detection
published 2021 · Decision Support Systems · 158 citations
Autoencoders for strategic decision support
published 2020 · Decision Support Systems · 15 citations
working paper 2020 · arXiv · 4 citations
A multi-objective approach for profit-driven feature selection in credit scoring
published 2019 · Decision Support Systems · 137 citations
tcc2vec: RFM-informed representation learning on call graphs for churn prediction
published 2019 · Information Sciences · 23 citations
Profit-Oriented Feature Selection in Credit Scoring Applications
published 2019 · Operations research proceedings · 1 citations
Profit driven decision trees for churn prediction
published 2018 · European Journal of Operational Research · 127 citations · first circulated 2017
The value of big data for credit scoring: Enhancing financial inclusion using mobile phone data and social network analytics
published 2018 · Applied Soft Computing · 216 citations
with María Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Carlos Sarraute, Jan Vanthienen
On the optimal marketing aggressiveness level of C2C sellers in social media: Evidence from china
published 2018 · Omega · 24 citations
with Xu Wang, Zhen Zhu
Isolation-based conditional anomaly detection on mixed-attribute data to uncover workers' compensation fraud
published 2018 · Decision Support Systems · 52 citations
with Eugen Stripling, Barak Chizi, Seppe vanden Broucke
Predicting tax avoidance by means of social network analytics
published 2018 · Decision Support Systems · 49 citations
On the operational efficiency of different feature types for telco Churn prediction
published 2017 · European Journal of Operational Research · 42 citations
Challenges of smart business process management: An introduction to the special issue
published 2017 · Decision Support Systems · 67 citations
with Jan Mendling, Abraham Bernstein, Michael Fellmann
An empirical comparison of techniques for the class imbalance problem in churn prediction
published 2017 · Information Sciences · 159 citations
with Bing Zhu, Seppe K. L. M. vanden Broucke
A note on explicit versus implicit information for job recommendation
published 2017 · Decision Support Systems · 47 citations
ProfARIMA: A profit-driven order identification algorithm for ARIMA models in sales forecasting
published 2017 · Applied Soft Computing · 42 citations
Time to default in credit scoring using survival analysis: a benchmark study
published 2016 · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 116 citations · first circulated 2015
Macro-Economic Factors in Credit Risk Calculations: Including Time-Varying Covariates in Mixture Cure Models
published 2016 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 44 citations
A new transferred feature selection algorithm for customer identification
published 2016 · Neural Computing and Applications · 5 citations
with Bing Zhu, Yongge Niu, Jin Xiao
Determining the use of data quality metadata (DQM) for decision making purposes and its impact on decision outcomes — An exploratory study
published 2015 · Decision Support Systems · 33 citations
Enabling flexible location-aware business process modeling and execution
published 2015 · Decision Support Systems · 33 citations
with Xinwei Zhu, Seppe vanden Broucke, Guobin Zhu, Jan Vanthienen
Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring: An update of research
published 2015 · European Journal of Operational Research · 1176 citations · first circulated 2003
APATE: A novel approach for automated credit card transaction fraud detection using network-based extensions
published 2015 · Decision Support Systems · 354 citations
with Véronique Van Vlasselaer, Cristián Bravo, Olivier Caelen, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Leman Akoglu, Monique Snoeck
An Akaike information criterion for multiple event mixture cure models
published 2014 · European Journal of Operational Research · 47 citations
Development and application of consumer credit scoring models using profit-based classification measures
published 2014 · European Journal of Operational Research · 176 citations
with Thomas Verbraken, Cristián Bravo, Richard W. Weber
Forecasting Loss Given Default models: impact of account characteristics and the macroeconomic state
published 2014 · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 47 citations
To tune or not to tune: rule evaluation for metaheuristic-based sequential covering algorithms
published 2013 · Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery · 18 citations · first circulated 2012
Do for-profit microfinance institutions achieve better financial efficiency and social impact? A generalised estimating equations panel data approach
published 2013 · Journal of Development Effectiveness · 20 citations
with Philippe Louis
Predicting online channel acceptance with social network data
published 2013 · Decision Support Systems · 34 citations
A Novel Credit Rating Migration Modeling Approach Using Macroeconomic Indicators
published 2013 · Journal of Forecasting · 4 citations
Financial Efficiency and Social Impact of Microfinance Institutions Using Self-Organizing Maps
published 2013 · World Development · 143 citations
with Philippe Louis, Alex Seret
Understanding and predicting bank rating transitions using optimal survival analysis models
published 2013 · Economics Letters · 2 citations · first circulated 2011
with Philippe Louis, Elisabeth Van Laere
Predicting e-commerce adoption using data about product search and supplier search behavior
published 2013 · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 1 citations
with Libo Li, Frank Goethals
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Comprehensive rule-based compliance checking and risk management with process mining
published 2012 · Decision Support Systems · 96 citations
with Filip Caron, Jan Vanthienen
A new SOM-based method for profile generation: Theory and an application in direct marketing
published 2012 · European Journal of Operational Research · 29 citations
with Alex Seret, Thomas Verbraken, Sébastien Versailles
Survival Analysis for Personal Loan Data Using Generalized Additive Models
published 2012 · Behaviormetrika · 3 citations
with Masaaki Tsujitani
Guest Editorial White Box Nonlinear Prediction Models
published 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks · 9 citations
Gaining insight into student satisfaction using comprehensible data mining techniques
published 2011 · European Journal of Operational Research · 50 citations
with Karel Dejaeger, Frank Goethals, Antonio Giangreco, Lapo Mola, K. Dejeager
New insights into churn prediction in the telecommunication sector: A profit driven data mining approach
published 2011 · European Journal of Operational Research · 441 citations
Benchmarking regression algorithms for loss given default modeling
published 2011 · International Journal of Forecasting · 188 citations
Performance of classification models from a user perspective
published 2011 · Decision Support Systems · 116 citations
Credit scoring for microfinance: is it worth it?
published 2011 · International Journal of Finance & Economics · 106 citations
Data quality for credit risk management.
published 2011 · ICIQ
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An empirical evaluation of the comprehensibility of decision table, tree and rule based predictive models
published 2010 · Decision Support Systems · 422 citations
Identifying financially successful start-up profiles with data mining
published 2010 · Expert Systems with Applications · 17 citations
Editorial survey: swarm intelligence for data mining
published 2010 · Machine Learning · 219 citations
with David Martens, Tom Fawcett
From linear to non-linear kernel based classifiers for bankruptcy prediction
published 2010 · Neurocomputing · 24 citations
with Tony Van Gestel, David Martens
The development of a simple and intuitive rating system under Solvency II
published 2010 · Insurance Mathematics and Economics · 15 citations · first circulated 2008
with Elisabeth Van Laere
Evaluatie en verbetering van de datakwaliteit
published 2009 · Informatie · 1 citations
with Karel Dejaeger, Jessica Ruelens, Tony Van Gestel, Joachim Jacobs, Jonas Poelmans, Bart Hamers
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An overview and framework for PD backtesting and benchmarking
published 2009 · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 33 citations
with Gerd Castermans, David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, Bart Hamers
Credit rating prediction using Ant Colony Optimization
published 2009 · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 67 citations
with David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, Maarten De Backer, Raf Haesen, Jan Vanthienen
Modeling churn using customer lifetime value
published 2008 · European Journal of Operational Research · 185 citations · first circulated 2006
with Nicolas Glady, Christophe Croux
Predicting going concern opinion with data mining
published 2008 · Decision Support Systems · 130 citations
with David Martens, Liesbeth Bruynseels, Marleen Willekens, Jan Vanthienen
A note on knowledge discovery using neural networks and its application to credit card screening
published 2007 · European Journal of Operational Research · 42 citations
with Rudy Setiono, Christophe Mues
Forecasting and analyzing insurance companies' ratings
published 2007 · International Journal of Forecasting · 57 citations
with Tony Van Gestel, David Martens, Daniel Feremans, Johan Huysmans, Jan Vanthienen
Comprehensible credit scoring models using rule extraction from support vector machines
published 2007 · European Journal of Operational Research · 422 citations · first circulated 2006
Inferring descriptive and approximate fuzzy rules for credit scoring using evolutionary algorithms
published 2006 · European Journal of Operational Research · 107 citations
with Frank Hoffmann, Christophe Mues, Tony Van Gestel, Jan Vanthienen
A Bayesian nonlinear support vector machine error correction model
published 2006 · Journal of Forecasting · 14 citations
with Tony Van Gestel, Marcelo Espinoza, Johan A. K. Suykens, Carine Brasseur, Bart De Moor
A process model to develop an internal rating system: Sovereign credit ratings
published 2005 · Decision Support Systems · 73 citations
with Tony Van Gestel, Peter Van Dijcke, João Garcia, Johan A. K. Suykens, Jan Vanthienen
Failure prediction with self organizing maps
published 2005 · Expert Systems with Applications · 66 citations
with Johan Huysmans, Jan Vanthienen, Tony Van Gestel
Special issue on intelligent information systems for financial engineering
published 2005 · Expert Systems with Applications · 1 citations
with Christophe Mues, Tony Van Gestel, Jan Vanthienen
Neural network survival analysis for personal loan data
published 2005 · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 145 citations · first circulated 2003
with Tony Van Gestel, M Stepanova, Dirk Van den Poel, Jan Vanthienen
Bayesian kernel based classification for financial distress detection
published 2005 · European Journal of Operational Research · 179 citations · first circulated 2004
with Tony Van Gestel, Johan A. K. Suykens, Dirk Van den Poel, Dirk-Emma Baestaens, Marleen Willekens, Bm. Willekens
Filter-versus wrapper-based feature selection for credit scoring
published 2005 · International Journal of Intelligent Systems · 57 citations
with Petr Somol, Pavel Pudil, Jan Vanthienen
Linear and non-linear credit scoring by combining logistic regression and support vector machines
published 2005 · The Journal of Credit Risk · 12 citations
with Tony Van Gestel, Peter Van Dijcke, Johan A. K. Suykens, João Garcia
Credit rating systems by combining linear ordinal logistic regression and fixed-size least squares support vector machines
published 2005 · Neural Information Processing Systems
with Tony Van Gestel, Jak Suykens, Kristiaan Pelckmans
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Confidence intervals for probabilistic network classifiers
published 2004 · Computational Statistics & Data Analysis · 4 citations
with M. Egmont-Petersen, Ad Feelders
Benchmarking Least Squares Support Vector Machine Classifiers
published 2003 · Machine Learning · 750 citations
with Tony Van Gestel, Johan A. K. Suykens, Stijn Viaene, Jan Vanthienen, Guido Dedene, Bart De Moor, Joos Vandewalle
Bayesian network classifiers for identifying the slope of the customer lifecycle of long-life customers
published 2003 · European Journal of Operational Research · 158 citations · first circulated 2002
with Geert Verstraeten, Dirk Van den Poel, M. Egmont-Petersen, Patrick Van Kenhove, Jan Vanthienen, Gert Verstraeten
Using Neural Network Rule Extraction and Decision Tables for Credit-Risk Evaluation
published 2003 · Management Science · 538 citations
with Rudy Setiono, Christophe Mues, Jan Vanthienen
Building intelligent credit scoring systems using decision tables-Best paper nomination
published 2003 · International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems · 19 citations
with Christophe Mues, Rudy Setiono, Manu De Backer, Jan Vanthienen
A Comparison of State‐of‐the‐Art Classification Techniques for Expert Automobile Insurance Claim Fraud Detection
published 2002 · Journal of Risk & Insurance · 220 citations
with Stijn Viaene, Richard A. Derrig, Guido Dedene
Bayesian neural network learning for repeat purchase modelling in direct marketing
published 2002 · European Journal of Operational Research · 218 citations
with Stijn Viaene, Dirk Van den Poel, Jan Vanthienen, Guido Dedene
Wrapped input selection using multilayer perceptrons for repeat‐purchase modeling in direct marketing
published 2001 · Intelligent Systems in Accounting Finance & Management · 45 citations
with Stijn Viaene, Dirk Van den Poel, Guido Dedene, Jan Vanthienen
A comparative study of state of the art classification algorithms for credit scoring
published 2001 · The Laryngoscope
with Stijn Viaene, Jan Vanthienen
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