Symantec Corporation

Oren Gross

Eyal S Lanxner

Shay Raz

A method of determining a clustering metric includes receiving a first set of transactions and a second set of transactions. For transaction i of the first set and transaction j of the second set, the method includes (a) determining an intersection set, (b) determining a union set; (c) computing a common linkage between transaction i and transaction j equal to the intersection set divided by the union set, and (d) incrementing index j and repeating steps (a)-(c). The method also includes (e) summing the common linkages between transaction i and the transactions of the second set, (f) normalizing the sum of the common linkages by a number of the second set, and (g) incrementing index i and repeating steps (a)-(f). The method further includes (h) summing the normalized common linkages and (i) normalizing the sum of the normalized common linkages by a number of the first set.

Method and system for clustering transactions in a fraud detection system

A method of computing a similarity between a first transaction having a set of properties and a second transaction having the set of properties includes computing an initial weight for each of the properties of the set of properties and computing a similarity between each of the properties of the first transaction and the properties of the second transaction. The method also includes adjusting the initial weight for each of the properties based on a measure of the commonness of each of the properties of the set of properties, normalizing the adjusted weights, and computing the similarity by summing the products of the normalized adjusted weights and the computed similarities.

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