Quantifying social vulnerability for flood disasters of insurance company

Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL., 2008, Pages 147-150

  Ge, Yi ^a   Liu, Jing ^b   Li, Fengying ^a   Shi, Peijun ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flood; Generalized regression neural network (GRNN); Insurance; Social vulnerability index

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; INSURANCE; MATLAB; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FLOOD; GENERALIZED REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK (GRNN); SOCIAL VULNERABILITY; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY INDEX;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 51649122701     PISSN: 10037985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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