The Kohonen self-organizing map: An application to the study of strategic groups in the UK hotel industry

Expert Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 19-31

  Curry, Bruce ^a   Davies, Fiona ^a   Phillips, Paul ^b   Evans, Martin ^b   Moutinho, Luiz ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Neural network; Self organizing map; Strategic group; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037950000     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0394.00152     Document Type: Article

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