A two-stage clustering approach for multi-region segmentation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 7120-7131

  Mo, Jiahui ^a   Kiang, Melody Y ^a,b,c   Zou, Peng ^c   Li, Yijun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering analysis; Multi region segmentation; Self organizing map (SOM) network

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; SALES;

CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS; CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION; DIMENSION REDUCTION; MULTI-REGION SEGMENTATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZING MAP NETWORKS; TWO-STAGE CLUSTERING; UNSUPERVISED NEURAL NETWORKS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 79953178150     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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