A new approach to product set selection and segmentation in preference mapping

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-196

  Johansen, Susanne Bølling ^a,b   Hersleth, Margrethe ^a,b   Næs, Tormod ^a,c  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

FCM; Fuzzy clustering; Ideal point preference mapping; Low fat cheese; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449517386     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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