Jurnal Sains Informatika Terapan (JSIT)
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): Jurnal Sains Informatika Terapan (Februari, 2026)

Fraud Prediction in Online Financial Transactions with a Combination of SMOTE and Ensemble Classifier

guterres, juvinal Ximenes (Unknown)
Silva, Delfim Da (Unknown)
Sales, Jacinto Defatima (Unknown)
Freitas, Abrao (Unknown)
Costa, Nuno da (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Feb 2026

Abstract

Detecting fraudulent transactions remains a major challenge in digital financial systems due to the severe imbalance between legitimate and fraudulent records. This study aims to develop a classification model capable of identifying fraudulent transactions with high sensitivity to minority classes, while ensuring performance stability suitable for operational deployment. The methodology includes data preprocessing through outlier removal, feature normalization, and stratified data partitioning. To address class imbalance, the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) is applied to generate representative synthetic samples for the minority class. Multiple machine learning algorithms are evaluated, including Random Forest, Decision Tree, Bagging, Gradient Boosting, Logistic Regression, Neural Network, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Support Vector Machine. Model performance is assessed using Precision, Recall, F1-Score, AUC, and G-Mean. The results show that the proposed approach achieves stable and reliable performance, with an AUC of 0.89 and a G-Mean of 0.81, demonstrating its effectiveness for operational fraud detection and error minimization.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jsit

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

The scope of this journal is all about Computer Science that are: 1. Artificial Intelligence 2. Computer System 3. Data Mining 4. Information System 5. Decision Support System (DSS) ...