User profiling based on multi-criteria analysis: The role of utility functions

Operational Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-16

  Lakiotaki, Kleanthi ^a   Delias, Pavlos ^a   Sakkalis, Vangelis ^b   Matsatsinis, Nikolaos F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cluster Analysis; Multi criteria analysis; User profiling; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749102617     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-008-0024-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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