Using Artificial Neural Networks to prove hypothetic cause-and-effect relations: A metamodel-based approach to Support strategic decisions

ICEIS 2002 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 367-373

  Hillbrand, Christian ^a   Karagiannis, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Balanced scorecard; Cause and effect relations; Sensitivity model; Strategic decisionmaking; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BALANCED SCORECARDS; BUSINESS PROCESS; CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONS; DECISION MODELING; FINANCIAL RATIOS; SENSITIVITY MODEL; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING; STRATEGIC DECISIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 8444224076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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