Bankruptcy prediction using connectionist and symbolic learning algorithms

This article describes the use of connectionist and symbolic learning algorithms in the problem of bankruptcy prediction. Data about Brazilian banks represented by 26 or 10 indicators of their current financial situation were used. The difference among the number of existent examples in the classes of bankrupt and nonbankrupt banks was livened up through the reduction of learning examples of the class of nonbankrupts and the addition of noise samples in the class of bankrupts.