A new fuzzy clustering algorithm for evaluating the performance of non-banking financial institutions in Romania

Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Costea, Adrian ^a   Bleotu, Vasile ^b  

^a Faculty of International Business and Economics   (Romania)

^b DIMITRIE CANTEMIR CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Clustering; Fuzzy c means algorithm; Fuzzy logic; Linguistic variables; Non banking financial institutions; Performance evaluation models; Weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872932768     PISSN: 0424267X     EISSN: 18423264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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