Optimal design of link structure for E-supermarket website

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 338-355

  Wang, Youwei ^a   Wang, Dingwei ^b   Ip, W H ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

E commerce; E supermarket; Neural networks; Tabu search; Website structure optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

E-SUPERMARKET WEBSITE; TABU SEARCH; WEBSITESTRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33244472145     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851336     Document Type: Article

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