Eliciting consumer preferences using robust adaptive choice questionnaires

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-155

  Abernethy, Jacob ^a   Evgeniou, Theodoros ^b   Toubia, Olivier ^c   Vert, Jean Philippe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

^c The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Interactive systems; Knowledge acquisition; Machine learning; Marketing; Personalization; Statistical

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS; REGULARIZARON NETWORKS; ROBUST ADAPTIVE CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKETING; ROBUST CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 37549071919     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.190632     Document Type: Article

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