Consumer credit scoring using an artificial immune system algorithm

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3377-3384

  Leung, Kevin ^a   Cheong, France ^a   Cheong, Christopher ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; CREDIT CARDS; CREDIT SCORING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 70449483702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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