Cluster analysis of smart metering data: An implementation in practice

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-39

  Flath, Christoph ^a   Nicolay, David ^a   Conte, Tobias ^a   Van Dinther, Clemens ^a   Filipova Neumann, Lilia ^a  

^a FZI RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Customer segmentation; Data mining; Energy industry; Smart metering; Tariff Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027940484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-011-0201-5     Document Type: Article

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