Genetic algorithm-based heuristic for feature selection in credit risk assessment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART 2, 2014, Pages 2052-2064

  Oreski, Stjepan ^a   Oreski, Goran ^a  

^a Bank of Karlovac   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Classification; Credit risk assessment; Genetic algorithms; Incremental feature selection; Neural network

Indexed keywords

BASIC HYPOTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CREDIT RISK ASSESSMENT; FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INITIAL POPULATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84888315345     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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