A fuzzy prediction model for calling communities

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 75-97

  Kianmehr, Keivan ^a   Alhajj, Reda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Department of Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Customer behaviour; Fuzzy genetic classifier; Social communities; Support vector machine; SVM

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITS (CDR CIRCUITS); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; INFORMATION USE; SALES; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLUSTERING; CUSTOMER BEHAVIOUR; GENETIC CLASSIFIERS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL COMMUNITIES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM; TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 78649686909     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2011.037162     Document Type: Article

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