Self-organizing learning array and its application to economic and financial problems

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1180-1192

  Zhu, Z ^a   He, H ^a   Starzyk, J A ^a   Tseng, C ^b  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Computational intelligence; Credit card and loan decision; Economic and financial problems; Self organizing learning array; Stock investment classification and prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INVESTMENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

BANKRUPTCY; CREDIT CARD; ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS; LOAN DECISION; STOCK INVESTMENT CLASSIFICATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845432024     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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