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T1 Evaluating the internationalization success of companies through a hybrid grouping harmony search-extreme learning machine approach
A1 Landa-Torres, Itziar
A1 Ortiz-García, Emilio G.
A1 Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho
A1 Segovia-Vargas, María J.
A1 Gil-López, Sergio
A1 Miranda, Marta
A1 Leiva-Murillo, Jose M.
A1 Del Ser, Javier
AB The internationalization of a company is widely understood as the corporative strategy for growing through external markets. It usually embodies a hard process, which affects diverse activities of the value chain and impacts on the organizational structure of the company. There is not a general model for a successful international company, so the success of an internationalization procedure must be estimated based on different variables addressing the status, strategy and market characteristics of the company at hand. This paper presents a novel hybrid soft-computing approach for evaluating the internationalization success of a company based on existing past data. Specifically, we propose a hybrid algorithm composed by a grouping-based harmony search (HS) approach and an extreme learning machine (ELM) ensemble. The proposed hybrid scheme further incorporates a feature selection method, which is obtained by means of a given group in the HS encoding format, whereas the ELM ensemble renders the final accuracy metric of the model. Practical results for the proposed hybrid technique are obtained in a real application based on the exporting success of Spanish manufacturing companies, which are shown to be satisfactory in comparison with alternative state-of-the-art techniques.
SN 1932-4553
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3067
UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3067
LA eng
NO Landa-Torres , I , Ortiz-García , E G , Salcedo-Sanz , S , Segovia-Vargas , M J , Gil-López , S , Miranda , M , Leiva-Murillo , J M & Del Ser , J 2012 , ' Evaluating the internationalization success of companies through a hybrid grouping harmony search-extreme learning machine approach ' , IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing , vol. 6 , no. 4 , 6200298 , pp. 388-398 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTSP.2012.2199463
NO Manuscript received June 22, 2011; revised January 10, 2012; accepted May 02, 2012. Date of publication May 15, 2012; date of current version July 13, 2012. This work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Education under the Projects ECO2010-22065-C03-01 and ECO2010-22065-C03-02. The work of J. Del Ser was supported the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the Torres-Quevedo Grant PTQ-09-01-00740 and the CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 Project CSD200800010. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Sanjeev Kulkarni.
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