Data mining to improve industrial standards and enhance production and marketing: An empirical study in apparel industry

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4185-4191

  Hsu, Chih Hung ^a  

^a HSIUPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Apparel industry; Cluster analysis; Data mining; Industrial standards; Production management and marketing

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMERCE; COMPETITION; DATA MINING; GRAPHIC METHODS; MANUFACTURE; MARKETING; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

APPAREL INDUSTRY; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DATA MINING FRAMEWORKS; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS; PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT; TEXTILE MANUFACTURING; VALUE-ADDED INDUSTRY;

TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 58349108491     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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