Mass customization of travel packages: Data mining approach

International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 612-624

  Al Salim, Bashar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Mass customization; Set covering problem

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

MASS CUSTOMIZATION; SET-COVERING PROBLEM;

DATA MINING;

EID: 44649137626     PISSN: 09206299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10696-007-9030-8     Document Type: Article

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