Accounting for dynamics in attribute-importance and for competitor performance to enhance reliability of BPNN-based importance-performance analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5144-5153

  Mikulić, Josip ^a   Prebežac, Darko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Asymmetric effects; Back propagation neural network; Determinance; IPA; Relevance

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC EFFECTS; BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK; DETERMINANCE; IPA; RELEVANCE;

BACKPROPAGATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84855867244     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.026     Document Type: Article

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