A note on knowledge discovery using neural networks and its application to credit card screening

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 326-332

  Setiono, Rudy ^a   Baesens, Bart ^b,c,d   Mues, Christophe ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit screening; Knowledge discovery; Neural networks; Rule extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; VEGETATION;

CREDIT SCREENING; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; RULE EXTRACTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 50849098868     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.022     Document Type: Article

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