Clustering people according to their preference criteria

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1274-1284

  Díez, Jorge ^a   del Coz, Juan José ^a   Luaces, Oscar ^a   Bahamonde, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive assistants; Analysis of sensory data; Clustering; Learning preferences; Market segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; METRIC SYSTEM;

ADAPTIVE ASSISTANTS; KERNEL BASED SIMILARITY; LEARNING PREFERENCES; PREFERENCE JUDGMENTS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148970079     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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