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language = "en",
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abstract = "The study presents a computational intelligent
methodology for fuzzy rule-based classification of
enterprises into different categories of credit risk.
The presented methodology correspond to an approach to
the problem of classifying credit applicants, according
to the need for reduction of complexity, higher
classification accuracy, and comprehensibility of the
acquired decision rules. The data used are both of
numerical and linguistic nature and they represent a
real world problem, that of deciding whether a loan
should be granted or not, in respect to financial
details of customers applying for that loan, to a
private bank of a southern province of the European
Union. The techniques involved in the rule-based
categorization task are the inductive machine learning
and the type-constrained genetic programming. We
examine a two-step model, with a sample of 124
enterprises that applied for a loan, each of which is
described by 76 (mainly financial) decision variables,
and classified to one of the seven predetermined
classes. Special attention is given to the
comprehensibility and the ease of use for the acquired
decision rules. The application of the proposed methods
can make the classification task easier and may
minimize significantly the amount of required credit
data. We consider that the methodology may also give
the chance for the extraction of a comprehensible
credit management model or even the incorporation of a
related decision support system in banking. The overall
architecture of the model can be continuously retrained
and reformed, by adding every new credit-risk case,
becoming more and more accurate and robust
classification models over time",
notes = "Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dept. of
Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Information
Analysis Lab
broken Nov 2023 http://gandalf.fcee.urv.es/sigef/",