Country corruption analysis with self organizing maps and support vector machines

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3917 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 103-114

  Huysmans, Johan ^a   Martens, David ^a   Baesens, Bart ^a,b   Vanthienen, Jan ^a   Van Gestel, Tony ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Dexia Group   (Belgium)

^d Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CORRUPTION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH FIELD; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TERRORISM;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 33745800067     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11734628_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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