A recommender system using GA K-means clustering in an online shopping market

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1200-1209

  Kim, Kyoung jae ^a   Ahn, Hyunchul ^b  

^a Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Genetic algorithms; Market segmentation; Recommender system; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE MARKET; MARKET SEGMENTATION; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEM;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36148984621     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.12.025     Document Type: Article

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