A hybrid grey based K-means and feature selection for bank evaluation

Abstract

Performance measurement plays essential role on improving the performance of business units and their efficiencies. During the past few years, there have been tremendous development in banking systems and the primary focus of many managers is to improve the quality of services for market retention. Performance measurement in banking industry is normally involved with various qualitative as well as quantitative criteria, which leads to the implementation of multiple criteria decision making techniques. This paper presents a hybrid grey relational analysis and K-means to cluster and measure the performance of banking system. The proposed study uses different criteria, clusters banks into various segments and ranks 43 different banks in city of Semnan, Iran.

Keywords

• Banking industry
• K-means
• Ranking