back to author index
   
title:
 
Association-rule-based User Segmenta-tion: An Empirical Study
publication:
 
ICEBI-10
part of series:
  Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
ISBN:
  978-90-78677-40-6
ISSN:
  1951-6851
DOI:
  doi:10.2991/icebi.2010.33 (how to use a DOI)
author(s):
 
Ming Ren, Qiang Wei, Wei Xu
publication date:
 
December 2010
keywords:
 
segmentation, association rule, the Entity-Relationship (ER) model, understandability, empirical study
abstract:
 
Segmentation is becoming crucial than ever for proper exploration of information and delivery of services to the users in a personalized manner. This paper proposes a user segmentation method based on association rules discovered in large databases, and represents the hierarchical segmentation by the Entity-Relationship model, which is easy to understand. To evaluate the proposed model, the understandability of the model is studied from the perspective of a modeler. The experiment result shows that the models were understandable and richer in semantics, and that the level of segmentation hierarchy might affect the degree of understandability.
copyright:
 
© Atlantis Press. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
full text: