Financial modeling and improvement planning for the life insurance industry by using a rough knowledge based hybrid MCDM model

Information Sciences

Volumn 375, Issue , 2017, Pages 296-313

  Shen, Kao Yi ^a   Hu, Shu Kung ^b   Tzeng, Gwo Hshiung ^c  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DEMATEL based analytic network process (DANP); Financial performance (FP); Fuzzy integral; Multi attribute utility theory (MAUT); Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); Rough set theory (RST)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FINANCE; INSURANCE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOFT COMPUTING;

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FUZZY INTEGRAL; MULTIATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ROUGH SET THEORY (RST);

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84991574444     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2016.09.055     Document Type: Article

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