A Multi-Layered Framework for Developing a Web-Based Intelligent Corporate Bond Rating Agent

摘要

This paper describes a Web-based Intelligent Corporate Bond Rating Agent. It is designed to include a realtimedimension in a corporate bond rating information system. By incorporating qualitative variables, theagent also provides a means of supplementing conventional rating approaches. Timely informationcapabilities of the Web-based Intelligent Corporate Bond Rating Agent would be a benefit for the capitalmarket considering the nonmonotonic nature of rating information systems.