A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products

Prior to manufacture a new products, consumers with similar purchasing attitudes are grouped into clusters of which their central points are used as ideal points for new product development. However, many clustering methods ignore the fuzziness of consumers in purchasing products or conducing survey...

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Main Author: Chan, Kit Yan
Other Authors: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7199
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description Prior to manufacture a new products, consumers with similar purchasing attitudes are grouped into clusters of which their central points are used as ideal points for new product development. However, many clustering methods ignore the fuzziness of consumers in purchasing products or conducing survey. This paper presents a new method which integrates a fuzzy data processing technique for dimension reduction of customer attributes and a fuzzy clustering technique for grouping consumers with similar purchasing attributes. Hence, the central points of each group are treated as the ideal points for new product development. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated based on a new product design problem for new digital cameras.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-71992017-09-13T14:38:34Z A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products Chan, Kit Yan IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Ideal points fuzzy clustering new product development fuzzy data Prior to manufacture a new products, consumers with similar purchasing attitudes are grouped into clusters of which their central points are used as ideal points for new product development. However, many clustering methods ignore the fuzziness of consumers in purchasing products or conducing survey. This paper presents a new method which integrates a fuzzy data processing technique for dimension reduction of customer attributes and a fuzzy clustering technique for grouping consumers with similar purchasing attributes. Hence, the central points of each group are treated as the ideal points for new product development. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated based on a new product design problem for new digital cameras. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7199 10.1109/CISIS.2013.25 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle Ideal points
fuzzy clustering
new product development
fuzzy data
Chan, Kit Yan
A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
title A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
title_full A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
title_fullStr A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
title_full_unstemmed A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
title_short A fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
title_sort fuzzy clustering approach for determination of ideal points of new products
topic Ideal points
fuzzy clustering
new product development
fuzzy data
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7199