Evaluating the internationalization success of companies through a hybrid grouping harmony search-extreme learning machine approach

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 388-398

  Landa Torres, Itziar ^a   Ortiz García, Emilio G ^d   Salcedo Sanz, Sancho ^b   Segovia Vargas, María J ^c   Gil López, Sergio ^a   Miranda, Marta ^c   Leiva Murillo, Jose M ^d   Del Ser, Javier ^a  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Company internationalization; ensembles; exporting performance; extreme learning machines; harmony search (HS); hybrid algorithms

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; EXPORTING PERFORMANCE; EXTREME LEARNING MACHINE; HARMONY SEARCH; HYBRID ALGORITHMS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84864149771     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2012.2199463     Document Type: Article

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