Patent analysis for supporting merger and acquisition (M&A) prediction: A data mining approach

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 22 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 187-200

  Wei, Chih Ping ^a   Jiang, Yu Syun ^a   Yang, Chin Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data mining; Ensemble learning; M A prediction; Merger and acquisition (M A); Patent analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERGING; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; TARGETS;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; CANDIDATE TARGET; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; EVALUATION RESULTS; PATENT ANALYSIS; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION TECHNIQUES; REAL-WORLD;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 70349557524     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01256-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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