Credit risk assessment and decision making by a fusion approach

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-110

  Wu, Tsui Chih ^a   Hsu, Ming Fu ^b  

^a SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Decision support model; Knowledge acquisition; Risk assessment; Risk management

Indexed keywords

CREDIT ANALYSIS; CREDIT RATINGS; CREDIT RISK ASSESSMENT; CREDIT RISKS; DECISION SUPPORT MODELS; ECONOMIC STABILITY; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; INTERPRETABILITY; LOGICAL STATEMENTS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PERFORMANCE OF CLASSIFIER; RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; ECONOMICS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84866478887     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2012.04.025     Document Type: Article

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