scholarly journals Time Series Clustering of Online Gambling Activities for Addicted Users’ Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2397
Author(s):  
Fernando Peres ◽  
Enrico Fallacara ◽  
Luca Manzoni ◽  
Mauro Castelli ◽  
Aleš Popovič ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Online Gambling ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Time Series Clustering ◽  
Pathological Gamblers ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Personal Consequences ◽  
Online Gamblers ◽  
Gambling Activities

Ever since the worldwide demand for gambling services started to spread, its expansion has continued steadily. To wit, online gambling is a major industry in every European country, generating billions of Euros in revenue for commercial actors and governments alike. Despite such evidently beneficial effects, online gambling is ultimately a vast social experiment with potentially disastrous social and personal consequences that could result in an overall deterioration of social and familial relationships. Despite the relevance of this problem in society, there is a lack of tools for characterizing the behavior of online gamblers based on the data that are collected daily by betting platforms. This paper uses a time series clustering algorithm that can help decision-makers in identifying behaviors associated with potential pathological gamblers. In particular, experimental results obtained by analyzing sports event bets and black jack data demonstrate the suitability of the proposed method in detecting critical (i.e., pathological) players. This algorithm is the first component of a system developed in collaboration with the Portuguese authority for the control of betting activities.

Terrestrial vs. Online Gamblers

2018 ◽  
pp. 203-213
Author(s):  
Vaggelis Saprikis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Gambling ◽  
Gambling Industry ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Online Gamblers ◽  
Gambling Activities ◽  
Insight Into

It goes without saying that the advances of Information and Communication Technologies have brought many changes in various forms of traditional commerce including gambling industry. Nowadays, e-gambling has dramatically changed the way of wagering and is considered as one of the fastest growing sectors of contemporary e-commerce. Every day even more individuals are moving from terrestrial to online gambling venues or start wagering exclusively online taking advantage of the numerous playing options. Characteristically, the global internet gambling gross market is expected to exceed US$51 billion by 2018. Consequently, its dynamics has forced many researchers to investigate e-gambling scientific field from different perspectives trying to gain an improved insight into gamblers behavior in the cyberspace. This chapter aims to investigate the perceived advantages and disadvantages of terrestrial versus online gamblers towards e-gambling activities focusing on university students. Furthermore, it aims to identify possible similarities and differences between the two groups examined.

Clustering Methodology for Time Series Mining

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Pēteris Grabusts ◽  
Arkady Borisov
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Similarity Measures ◽  
Longest Common Subsequence ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Time Series Clustering ◽  
Series Analysis ◽  
Time Series Mining

Clustering Methodology for Time Series MiningA time series is a sequence of real data, representing the measurements of a real variable at time intervals. Time series analysis is a sufficiently well-known task; however, in recent years research has been carried out with the purpose to try to use clustering for the intentions of time series analysis. The main motivation for representing a time series in the form of clusters is to better represent the main characteristics of the data. The central goal of the present research paper was to investigate clustering methodology for time series data mining, to explore the facilities of time series similarity measures and to use them in the analysis of time series clustering results. More complicated similarity measures include Longest Common Subsequence method (LCSS). In this paper, two tasks have been completed. The first task was to define time series similarity measures. It has been established that LCSS method gives better results in the detection of time series similarity than the Euclidean distance. The second task was to explore the facilities of the classical k-means clustering algorithm in time series clustering. As a result of the experiment a conclusion has been drawn that the results of time series clustering with the help of k-means algorithm correspond to the results obtained with LCSS method, thus the clustering results of the specific time series are adequate.

scholarly journals Preferences on Online Gambling Activities among Adolescents: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
González Bueso V ◽  
◽  
Santamaría JJ ◽  
Fernández D ◽  
Montero E ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Sports Betting ◽  
Online Gambling ◽  
Gambling Activity ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Online Gamblers ◽  
Gambling Activities

The accessibility and availability of a variety of online gambling for adolescents is a public concern. In the current literature, it remains unclear in which activities the greatest prevalence occurs. Moreover, it is well-known that different types of gambling activities carry different levels of risk just as have distinct socioeconomic, and mental health-related consequences. The main aim of this study is to systematically review the current literature in order to explore the prevalence of different types of online gambling activities reported by adolescents and their relationship with other reported variables when available. It will be conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-P 2015 statement for systematic review and metaanalysis protocols. An electronic literature search will be conducted using the following databases: PubMed, PsychINFO, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and Google Scholar using search keywords and logic as follows: “(Internet OR online) gambling AND (adolescents OR young people)”. Additionally, further articles will be identified through searching the citations in the literature selected. The overall percentage of online gamblers and the percentage of online gamblers for each type of gambling activity were identified or calculated. Seven-teen articles met the eligibility criteria. The included studies comprised 15 crosssectional and two longitudinal designs. Most of the research was conducted in Europe. The online gambling modalities detected were sports bets, card games, gambling machines, casino games lottery games, scratch tickets, bingo, gambling in social networking, stock market investment, and mahjong. Only two studies provided associations between a specific online gambling activity and socioeconomic and mental health associations, founding involvement in online sports betting and in online casino game is a risk factor to the development of disordered gambling. A consensus on the evaluation method of the problem and updated questionnaires collecting information regarding the new online betting modalities are critical.

An Empirical Investigation on Terrestrial and Online Gamblers' Perceptions towards e-Gambling Activities

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Vaggelis Saprikis
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Internet Gambling ◽  
Online Gambling ◽  
Gambling Industry ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Online Gamblers ◽  
Gambling Activities ◽  
Insight Into

E-gambling has dramatically changed the way of wagering and nowadays even more individuals are moving from the terrestrial to online gambling venues. At the same time, it is considered as one of the fastest growing sectors of e-commerce. Characteristically, the global internet gambling gross market is expected to exceed US $43 billion by 2015. As a consequence, its dynamics has forced many researchers to investigate e-gambling scientific field from different perspectives trying to gain an improved insight into gamblers behavior in the cyberspace. The scope of this paper is to examine the perceived advantages and disadvantages of terrestrial and online gamblers towards e-gambling activities focusing on university students. Furthermore, it aims to identify possible differences and similarities between the two groups of respondents. The research results are believed to provide interesting insights to both academia and gambling industry.

scholarly journals Linear Time Complexity Time Series Clustering with Symbolic Pattern Forest

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaosheng Li ◽  
Jessica Lin ◽  
Liang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Time Complexity ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Time Series Clustering ◽  
Group Structures

With increasing powering of data storage and advances in data generation and collection technologies, large volumes of time series data become available and the content is changing rapidly. This requires the data mining methods to have low time complexity to handle the huge and fast-changing data. This paper presents a novel time series clustering algorithm that has linear time complexity. The proposed algorithm partitions the data by checking some randomly selected symbolic patterns in the time series. Theoretical analysis is provided to show that group structures in the data can be revealed from this process. We evaluate the proposed algorithm extensively on all 85 datasets from the well-known UCR time series archive, and compare with the state-of-the-art approaches with statistical analysis. The results show that the proposed method is faster, and achieves better accuracy compared with other rival methods.

scholarly journals K-MDTSC: K-Multi-Dimensional Time-Series Clustering Algorithm

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1166
Author(s):  
Danilo Giordano ◽  
Marco Mellia ◽  
Tania Cerquitelli
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Time Series Clustering ◽  
Synthetic Datasets

The increasing capability to collect data gives us the possibility to collect a massive amount of heterogeneous data. Among the heterogeneous data available, time-series represents a mother lode of information yet to be fully explored. Current data mining techniques have several shortcomings while analyzing time-series, especially when more than one time-series, i.e., multi-dimensional time-series, should be analyzed together to extract knowledge from the data. In this context, we present K-MDTSC (K-Multi-Dimensional Time-Series Clustering), a novel clustering algorithm specifically designed to deal with multi-dimensional time-series. Firstly, we demonstrate K-MDTSC capability to group multi-dimensional time-series using synthetic datasets. We compare K-MDTSC results with k-Shape, a state-of-art time-series clustering algorithm based on K-means. Our results show both K-MDTSC and k-Shape create good clustering results. However, K-MDTSC outperforms k-Shape when complicating the synthetic dataset. Secondly, we apply K-MDTSC in a real case scenario where we are asked to replace a scheduled maintenance with a predictive approach. To this end, we create a generalized pipeline to process data from a real industrial plant welding process. We apply K-MDTSC to create clusters of weldings based on their welding shape. Our results show that K-MDTSC identifies different welding profiles, but that the aging of the electrode does not negatively impact the welding process.

scholarly journals Time Series Clustering Based on Singularity

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 790
Author(s):  
Dan Chang ◽  
Yunfang Ma ◽  
Xueli Ding
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Time Series Clustering

With relevant theories on time series clustering, the thesis makes researchinto similarity clustering process of time series from the perspective of singularity andproposes the time series clustering based on singularity applying K-means and DBScanclustering algorithms according to the shortage of traditional clustering algorithm. Inaccordance with the general clustering process of time series, time series clusteringbased on singularity and K-means are made respectively to get different clusteringresults and make a comparison, thus proving that similarity clustering research oftime series from the perspective of singularity can better find out people’s concern ontime series.

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