Abstract
This paper describes the creation of intervals of clusters of supermarket customers based on the modified Kohonen self-organizing maps. The supermarket customers from three different markets serviced by a Canadian national supermarket chain were clustered based on their spending and visit patterns. The resulting rough set based clustering captured the similarities and differences between the characteristics of the three regions.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Lingras, P.: Unsupervised Rough Set Classification using GAs. Journal Of Intelligent Information Systems 16(3), 215–228 (2001)
Lingras, P., Adams, G.: Selection of Time-Series for Clustering Supermarket Customers. Technical Report 2000_006, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, N.S., Canada (2002), http://cs.stmarys.ca/tech_reports/
Lingras, P., Hogo, M., Snorek, M.: Interval Set Clustering of Web Users using Modified Kohonen Self-Organization Maps based on the Properties of Rough Sets (2003) (submitted to Web Intelligent and Agent Systems: an International Journal)
Pawlak, Z.: Rough Sets: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Data. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (1992)
Polkowski, L., Skowron, A.: Rough Mereology: A New Paradigm for Approximate Reasoning. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 15(4), 333–365 (1996)
Skowron, A., Stepaniuk, J.: Information granules in distributed environment. In: Zhong, N., Skowron, A., Ohsuga, S. (eds.) RSFDGrC 1999. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 1711, pp. 357–365. Springer, Heidelberg (1999)
Yao, Y.Y., Li, X., Lin, T.Y., Liu, Q.: Representation and Classification of Rough Set Models. In: Proceeding of Third International Workshop on Rough Sets and Soft Computing, San Jose, California, pp. 630–637 (1994)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lingras, P., Hogo, M., Snorek, M., Leonard, B. (2003). Clustering Supermarket Customers Using Rough Set Based Kohonen Networks. In: Zhong, N., Raś, Z.W., Tsumoto, S., Suzuki, E. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2871. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39592-8_23
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39592-8_23
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-20256-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-39592-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive