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How to develop churn prediction model for telecom company?

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You are right, the most important place to dig is in Customer Care system or better say CRM database. What I want is that what are the steps in an order way to design the prediction model and of course which model best suits for analyzing telecom data. Step1: find as much attributes in telecom data as you can, and make a dataset of those data. Jan 2013, Feb 2013, Mar 2013) and extract those customers in this period of time (Jan, Feb and March) which leave the company (Am i right?) and then by having this dataset of churned and unchurned customers in Jan and Feb and March 2013 we can go to step 2 for further processes to finally could build a model which can predict the churn rate of customers in April 2013(Am i right? I want to know whether I am doing right or not?).


Is it OK to abuse, trust or make love to a robot?- Nikkei Asian Review

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TOKYO Advances in artificial intelligence are blurring the line between humans and robots. As robots interact ever more closely with us, new ethical questions are emerging related to issues from violence to sex and privacy. In February, a video uploaded to YouTube by Boston Dynamics, an American robot developer, sparked controversy. Some viewers were apparently shocked by a scene in which a man knocks down a box that was being lifted by a two-legged humanoid robot, developed by the company, and another scene in which the man knocks the robot down from behind with a stick. "Stop bullying robots," one viewer commented below the video.


Tokyo phone shop replaces staff with a team of Pepper the 'emotional' humanoids

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Customers hoping to buy a new phone in Tokyo are being met with a team of'emotional' robots ready to answer their questions. SoftBank has replaced staff with 10 humanoid Pepper robots in the city's first Pepper Phone Shop. The robots can answer questions, give suggestions and chat to customers by reading their tone of voice and facial expressions. SoftBank has replaced staff with a team of 10 humanoid Pepper robots in the city's first Pepper Phone Shop (picutred). It is the world's first store to be exclusively staffed by machines and will be open until 30 March.


Learning machine learning

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In August 2001, I was a telecoms analyst visiting investors in Tokyo. In one of these meetings, a portfolio manager at a Very Large Fund asked me what would happen now that GPRS meant that all mobile voice calls would be packet-switched and that therefore mobile operators' voice revenue would disappear within the next 18 months or so. This was a surprisingly hard question to answer well. It was nonsense, but to explain why it was nonsense you had to work out quite which things the person asking it didn't know, and what completely incorrect narrative he'd arrived at to think that this was going to happen. He'd heard'packet' and'mobile' and added 2 2 to get 22.


Completely random measures for modeling power laws in sparse graphs

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Network data appear in a number of applications, such as online social networks and biological networks, and there is growing interest in both developing models for networks as well as studying the properties of such data. Since individual network datasets continue to grow in size, it is necessary to develop models that accurately represent the real-life scaling properties of networks. One behavior of interest is having a power law in the degree distribution. However, other types of power laws that have been observed empirically and considered for applications such as clustering and feature allocation models have not been studied as frequently in models for graph data. In this paper, we enumerate desirable asymptotic behavior that may be of interest for modeling graph data, including sparsity and several types of power laws. We outline a general framework for graph generative models using completely random measures; by contrast to the pioneering work of Caron and Fox (2015), we consider instantiating more of the existing atoms of the random measure as the dataset size increases rather than adding new atoms to the measure. We see that these two models can be complementary; they respectively yield interpretations as (1) time passing among existing members of a network and (2) new individuals joining a network. We detail a particular instance of this framework and show simulated results that suggest this model exhibits some desirable asymptotic power-law behavior.


Lei Liu is dreaming big at HP Labs

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When HP Labs research scientist Lei Liu was a child in XianYang, China, he read a newspaper article detailing how HP originated in a garage in Palo Alto. "That inspired me," he recalls. "Silicon Valley was clearly somewhere where you could have a dream, incubate it, and see it come true." Today, Lei is living that dream as a member of HP's Print and 3D Lab. After studying for his B.S. and M.S. in computer science at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, he moved to Michigan State University where he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, focusing on data mining and machine learning.


AI on the high street: Clever shopping with artificial intelligence ITProPortal.com

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As retailers and brands predict and plan for the way consumers will shop in the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is high on the business development strategy for 2016 and beyond. Promising significant benefits for both retailers and consumers, AI is already around us and used everyday within shopping and payments. Businesses are embracing the benefits of the technology and progress within AI is accelerating at pace, with big things expected for the near, and distant, future. AI can process'big data' far more efficiently than humans and can recognise speech, images, text, patterns of online behaviour โ€“ for example to detect fraud โ€“ as well as appropriate advertisements for upselling. Smart machines and technology can turn data into customer insights and enhance service provisions, bringing the digital experience closer to the in-store interaction for consumers.


Could you fall in love with robot Sophia?

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Ishiguro does not expect the average household to buy a Geminoid -- in part because of the 100,000 price tag -- but he already has some orders from researchers. He does expect his smaller CommU communicative robots to make their way inside many households within the next couple of years. Like Amazon's Echo -- but much cuter -- these chatty robots use voice recognition technology and artificial intelligence to simulate conversation. An example of where they can be useful is in tutoring, said Ishiguro. Many Japanese learners struggle with speaking English because they do not get enough practice.


Adaptive Filter for Automatic Identification of Multiple Faults in a Noisy OTDR Profile

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Adaptive Filter for Automatic Identification of Multiple Faults in a Noisy OTDR Profile Jean Pierre von der Weid, Mario H. Souto, Joaquim D. Garcia, and Gustavo C. Amaral November 7, 2018 Abstract We present a novel methodology able to distinguish meaningful level shifts from typical signal fluctuations. A two-stage regularization filtering can accurately identify the location of the significant level-shifts with an efficient parameter-free algorithm. The developed methodology demands low computational effort and can easily be embedded in a dedicated processing unit. Our case studies compare the new methodology with current available ones and show that it is the most adequate technique for fast detection of multiple unknown level-shifts in a noisy OTDR profile. 1 Introduction The central problem in fiber monitoring is the detection of small faults or losses most commonly performed by inspecting the trace of an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) [1]. These faults appear as small level shifts in a slowly varying backscattered optical power, eventually masked by the detector noise. Averaging over many OTDR shots is usually required to get access to the information needed. However, measurement time is of paramount importance in network monitoring, so that signal processing and filtering is a fundamental tool to improve time and sensitivity of the overall process. Moreover, in the case of wavelength multiplexed optical networks (WDM-PON) the problem is still worse because coherent backscattered power fluctuations (CRN) cannot be averaged out by summing up many OTDR shots [2].


The interference immunity of the telemetric information data exchange with autonomous mobile robots

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Kozlenko, M.I. (2012), "Frequency resource using of the spread spectrum signals forming in the distributed computer and telecommunication systems", Kozlenko, M.I. (2012), "Time complexity of the variable entropy spread spectrum signals digital demodulation", To obtain the interference immunity of the data exchange by spread spectrum signals with variable entropy of the telemetric information data exchange with autonomous mobile robots. The results have been obtained by the theoretical investigations and have been confirmed by the modeling experiments. The interference immunity in form of dependence of bit error probability on normalized signal/noise ratio of the data exchange by spread spectrum signals with variable entropy has been obtained. It has been proved that the interference immunity fa ctor (needed normalized signal/noise ratio) is at least 2 dB better under condition of equal time complexity as compared with correlation processing methods of orthogonal signals. For the first time the interference immunity in form of dependence of bit error probability on normalized signal/noise ratio of the data exchange by spread spectrum signals with variable entropy has been obtained.