An in-process customer utility prediction system for product conceptualisation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2555-2567

  Chen, Chun Hsien ^a   Yan, Wei ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Customer utility index; Design knowledge hierarchy; In process customer utility prediction; Product conceptualisation; Radial basis function neural network

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MOBILE PHONES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

CELLULAR PHONE; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER UTILITY INDEX; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE HIERARCHY; PRODUCT CONCEPTUALIZATION;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 38749092633     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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