This paper considered a preprocessing of input data to improve the performance of standardized BP learning algorithm. In general, even a simple uniform transformation into a proper range improves the efficiency of the BP algorithm. However, uniform transformation becomes inefficient if the input...

This paper predates the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Section 704: Study of Enforcement Actions) by three years. The purpose of this study is to compare a class of neural networks and fuzzy controller approaches, more specifically, a multi-layered perceptron (MLP) and a self-organizing fuzzy...

"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample of merged firms over a ten-year period using a managerially controlled efficiency measure, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our individual, firm-level, year-by-year analyses...