Selecting the right MBA schools - An application of self-organizing map networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 946-955

  Kiang, Melody Y ^a,b   Fisher, Dorothy M ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Kohonen SOM networks; MBA ranking; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FLOW OF SOLIDS; MAPS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ELSEVIER (CO); K MEANS; KOHONEN; NEURAL COMPUTING; SELF ORGANIZING MAP (SOM); SELF-ORGANIZING MAP (SOM) NETWORK; SOM NETWORKS; STEP FACTOR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) MAP;

METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 44949229273     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.053     Document Type: Article

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