Purpose: The goal of this study was to propose the multi-agent mechanism to forecast the corporate financial distress. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilized numerous methods, namely random subspace method, discriminant analysis and decision tree to construct the multi-agent...

Purpose: The goal of this study was to propose the multi-agent mechanism to forecast the corporate financial distress. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilized numerous methods, namely random subspace method, discriminant analysis and decision tree to construct the multi-agent...

This study proposes an ensemble-based model (EBM) for the two-class imbalanced classification problem by joining together the support vector machine (SVM), multiple feature selection combination, back-propagation neural network (BPNN) ensemble, and rough set theory (RST). To improve the...