Beyond Travel & Tourism competitiveness ranking using DEA, GST, ANN and Borda count

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 12974-12982

  Wu, Wei Wen ^a  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Borda count; Data envelopment analysis; Grey system theory; Ranking trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BORDA COUNT; CALCULATION ERROR; GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS; GREY SYSTEM THEORY; INFORMED DECISION; POLICY MAKERS; RANKING METHODS; RANKING TRUSTWORTHINESS; WEIGHTING METHODS;

COMPETITION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 79958007070     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.096     Document Type: Article

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