Computer Programme Developed to Attack Fraud.The working of the human immune. system is being copied to develop a computer system to detect fraud. Once developed this could help to fight cheque and credit card fraud Credit card fraud is a wide-ranging term for theft and fraud committed using a credit card or any similar payment mechanism as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction. The purpose may be to obtain goods without paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an account. , and has potential for combating internet fraud A crime in which the perpetrator develops a scheme using one or more elements of the Internet to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by providing misleading information or by concealment of . The Computational Immunology ''This article or section is being rewritten at The explosive growth of bioinformatics techniques and applications in the post-genomics era has radically transformed immunology research. This has led to a comparable growth in the field of computation immunology, or immunoinformatics. Fraud Detection (CEID CEID Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (University of Patras, Greece) CEID Collected Event ID CEID Chicken Embryo Infectious Dose (virus titration in embryonated chicken eggs) ) system is being developed to spot and track unusual financial transactions. It is being worked on jointly by The Post Office, Kings College London and Anite Government Systems, with funding from the Department of Trade and Industry's Management of Information Programme. The Post Office is providing a regularly well-used data base to test the system. Details of the [pound]148 billion of transactions made each year across the UK's 18,500 Post Office branches, which have already been audited, will be scanned to test the computer programme. The project, started in April, will take three years to develop. The CIFD system will spot abnormal activity, similar to the way that a human body immunity cells, lymphocytes Lymphocytes Small white blood cells that bear the major responsibility for carrying out the activities of the immune system; they number about 1 trillion. , react when they encounter bacteria or a virus. This will provide a fast alert to potential frauds. Just as lymphocytes ignore normal cells in the body that they recognise, so the CIFD will ignore normal transactions. |
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