Title
Mining the change of customer behavior in an internet shopping mall
Abstract
Understanding and adapting to changes of customer behavior is an important aspect for a internet-based company to survive in a continuously changing environment. The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology which detects changes of customer behavior automatically from customer profiles and sales data at different time snapshots. For this purpose, we first define the three types of changes as emerging pattern, unexpected change and the added/perished rule, then, we develop similarity and difference measures for rule matching to detect all types of change. Finally, the degree of change is evaluated to detect significantly changed rules. Our proposed methodology can evaluate the degree of changes as well as detect all kinds of change automatically from different time snapshot data. A case study on an internet shopping mall for evaluation of this methodology is also provided.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1016/S0957-4174(01)00037-9
Expert Systems with Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Data mining,Association rule mining,Change mining
Customer intelligence,Data mining,Consumer behaviour,Computer science,Rule matching,Association rule learning,Internet shopping,Snapshot (computer storage),The Internet,Change mining
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
3
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
75
3.32
26
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hee Seok Song11578.75
Jae Kyeong Kim2101152.32
Soung Hie Kim3119577.55