Hybridizing principles of TOPSIS with case-based reasoning for business failure prediction

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 409-419

  Li, Hui ^a,b   Adeli, Hojjat ^b   Sun, Jie ^a   Han, Jian Guang ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Business failure prediction; Multiple criteria case based reasoning; Similarities to positive and negative ideal cases; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS FAILURE; BUSINESS FAILURE PREDICTION; CASE BASE; CBR; COMPARATIVE METHODS; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; DATA SETS; ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FORECASTING METHODS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; SIMILARITIES TO POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IDEAL CASES; TOPSIS;

FORECASTING; PLANT SHUTDOWNS;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 77956402613     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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