Data mining for selection of insurance sales agents

Expert Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-132

  Cho, Vincent ^a   Ngai, Eric W T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Data mining; Intelligent decision support systems

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA WAREHOUSES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INSURANCE; PERSONNEL SELECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INSURANCE SALES AGENTS; INTELLIGENT AGENT SELECTION ASSISTANT FOR INSURANCE; INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0042389653     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0394.00235     Document Type: Article

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