Bagged Clustering and its application to tourism market segmentation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4944-4956

  D'Urso, Pierpaolo ^a   De Giovanni, Livia ^b   Disegna, Marta ^c   Massari, Riccardo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bagged Clustering; Dissimilarity measures for quantitative and; Fuzzy C medoids; Normalized weighted Shannon entropy; Qualitative data; Tourism market segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

BAGGED CLUSTERING; DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; MARKET SEGMENTATION; MEDOIDS; QUALITATIVE DATA; SHANNON ENTROPY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84885052257     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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