A rough set based approach to patent development with the consideration of resource allocation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1980-1992

  Huang, Chun Che ^a   Liang, Wen Yau ^b   Shian Hua Lin, ^a   Tseng, Tzu Liang ^c   Chiang, Hui Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Knapsack problem; Patent analysis; Resource allocation; Rough set

Indexed keywords

COST CONSTRAINTS; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; DECISION RULES; DIRECT INVESTMENTS; HIGH COSTS; KNAPSACK PROBLEMS; PATENT ANALYSIS; PATENT APPLICATIONS; PATENT CLASSIFICATIONS; PATENT INFORMATION; PATENT MANAGEMENT; PATENT PORTFOLIO; PATENT REFORMS; PATENT STRATEGY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; ROUGH SET; ROUGH-SET BASED; STANDARD STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PLANNING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROBOT LEARNING;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 78049528823     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.132     Document Type: Article

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