A data mining approach to product assortment and shelf space allocation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 976-986

  Chen, Mu Chen ^a   Lin, Chia Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SAS Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data mining; Multi level association rules; Shelf space management; Zero one integer programming

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MULTI LEVEL ASSOCIATION RULES; PRODUCT ASSORTMENT; SHELF SPACE MANAGEMENT; ZERO ONE INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33751527220     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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