A clustering method based on fuzzy equivalence relation for customer relationship management

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 6421-6428

  Wang, Yu Jie ^a  

^a NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clustering; Customer relationship management; Fuzzy compatible relation; Fuzzy equivalence relation; Transitive closure

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SALES; SET THEORY;

CLUSTERING; COMPATIBLE RELATIONS; CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; FUZZY EQUIVALENCE RELATION; TRANSITIVE CLOSURE;

PUBLIC RELATIONS;

EID: 80053610253     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.02.076     Document Type: Article

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