Automatic knowledge extraction from survey data: Learning M-of-N constructs using a hybrid approach

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-14

  Setiono, R ^a   Pan, S L ^a   Hsieh, M H ^b   Azcarraga, A ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Decision trees; M of N constructs; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DECISION TREES; INFORMATION SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; M-OF-N CONSTRUCTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 12144263803     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601807     Document Type: Review

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