An approach to budget allocation for an aerospace company-Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and artificial neural network

Neurocomputing

Volumn 72, Issue 16-18, 2009, Pages 3477-3489

  Tang, Yu Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural network; Budget allocation; Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; Intangible criteria; Sensitivity analysis; Tangible criteria

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUDGET ALLOCATION; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; INTANGIBLE CRITERIA; TANGIBLE CRITERIA;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; BACKPROPAGATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUDGET; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUZZY SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPACE;

EID: 69249221578     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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