Citizens as consumers: Profiling e-government services' users in Egypt via data mining techniques

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 627-641

  Mostafa, Mohamed M ^a   El Masry, Ahmed A ^b  

^a GULF UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer profiling; Data mining; e Government services; Egypt; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION TREES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; E-GOVERNMENT; FORESTRY; MACHINE LEARNING; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; NETWORK LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; CONSUMER PROFILING; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; EGYPT; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS;

DATA MINING;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; TREES;

EID: 84877781496     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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