Rule effectiveness in rule-based systems: A credit scoring case study

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2783-2788

  Ben David, Arie ^a  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classification accuracy; Rule reduction; Rule based systems; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GRAPH THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REDUNDANCY; VERIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; RULE REDUCTION; VALIDATION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 38649087011     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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