Developing SFNN models to predict financial distress of construction companies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 823-827

  Chen, Jieh Haur ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ANN; Construction companies; Financial crisis; Financial distress; Fuzzy; Prediction; SOM optimization

Indexed keywords

ANN; CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL DISTRESS; FUZZY;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FORECASTING; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

FINANCE;

EID: 81855218738     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.080     Document Type: Article

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