Credit scoring using an Ant mining approach

Human Systems Management

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-88

  Goletsis, Yorgos ^a   Exarchosb, Themis P ^a   Katsis, Christos D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

ant colony systems; classification; Credit scoring; feature selection; rule extraction

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANT COLONY SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL ANT; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION RULES; CREDIT RISK ASSESSMENT; CREDIT SCORING; DATA SETS; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; NATURE INSPIRED ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RULE EXTRACTION;

METAL RECOVERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77954744357     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2010-0715     Document Type: Article

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