Predicting business failure using multiple case-based reasoning combined with support vector machine

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 10085-10096

  Li, Hui ^a   Sun, Jie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Business failure prediction; Chinese listed companies; Combining classifiers; Multiple case based reasoning; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS FAILURE PREDICTION; CHINESE LISTED COMPANIES; COMBINING-CLASSIFIERS; MULTIPLE CASE-BASED REASONING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

BITS; CASE BASED REASONING; CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 64049084825     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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