The competitiveness of the global market and availability of multiple outsourcing options have greatly increased the complexity of making 'good' outsourcing decisions. Improving the decision-making process when faced with a complex decision situation requires a systematic decision-making...

This paper proposes a modified bacterial foraging technique (BFT) to train wavelet neural network (WNN) in order to predict bankruptcy in banks. The BFT is modified in that the swarming step that implements cell-to-cell interaction is deleted. The parameters translation, dilation and the weights...