A new perspective on the competitiveness of nations

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 221-246

  Önsel, Şule ^a   Ülengin, Füsun ^a   Ulusoy, Gündüz ^b   Aktaş, Emel ^c   Kabak, Özgür ^c   Topcu, Y Ilker ^c  

^a DOGUS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Cluster analysis; Competitiveness; Ranking

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITIVENESS; RANKING;

EID: 51449122021     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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