Decision support through subgroup discovery: Three case studies and the lessons learned

Machine Learning

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 115-143

  Lavrač, Nada ^a,b   Cestnik, Bojan ^a   Gamberger, Dragan ^c   Flach, Peter ^d  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actionability; Data mining; Decision support; Lessons learned; Subgroup discovery

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKETING;

ACTIONABILITY; DECISION SUPPORT; LESSONS LEARNED; SUBGROUP DISCOVERY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 3242791702     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MACH.0000035474.48771.cd     Document Type: Review

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