The development of an ontology-based expert system for corporate financial rating

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2130-2142

  Shue, Li Yen ^a   Chen, Ching Wen ^a   Shiue, Weissor ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Expert system; JESS; Ontology; Prot g

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ONTOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL PROCESS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE BASE; FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; JESS; KNOWLEDGE CONTENT; OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REASONING PROCESS;

FINANCE;

EID: 56349108625     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.12.044     Document Type: Article

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