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고객정보와 상품네트워크 유사도를 이용한 시장세분화 기법

A Market Segmentation Scheme Based on Customer Information and QAP Correlation between Product Networks

  • 투고 : 2015.11.23
  • 심사 : 2015.12.10
  • 발행 : 2015.12.31

초록

시장세분화를 위해 일반변수와 트랜잭션 기반 변수를 동시에 사용하는 하이브리드 방법이 널리 사용되고 있지만, 하이브리드 방법에는 일반변수의 기준에 따라 정확하게 세분화가 되지 않는 문제점이 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결함과 동시에 상품 정보를 이용한 네트워크 분석을 활용하는 새로운 시장세분화 방법을 개발하는 것을 목표로 한다. QAP 상관관계분석을 이용하여 상품네트워크의 유사도를 계산하는 새로운 시장세분화 방법은 일반 변수 기준으로 시장을 명확하게 세분화하고, 상품 정보를 기반으로 하여 세분화된 집단 간의 구매패턴을 효과적으로 비교할 수 있도록 하는 장점을 갖고 있다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 상품구매정보를 활용한 네트워크 기반 시장세분화 방법의 활용 가능성과 성과를 입증하기 위해 실제 운영중인 온라인 쇼핑몰의 고객정보와 상품구매정보를 수집하여 시장세분화 방법의 절차를 설명하고 결과를 제시한다. 본 연구에서 제안된 시장세분화방법은 기본적인 고객정보 및 상품구매정보를 이용하여 상품구매패턴이 유사한 고객 집단을 인구통계학적인 일반변수 기준으로 세분화할 수 있기 때문에 대다수의 온 오프라인 유통업체에서 폭넓은 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

In recent, hybrid market segmentation techniques have been widely adopted, which conduct segmentation using both general variables and transaction based variables. However, the limitation of the techniques is to generate incorrect results for market segmentation even though its methodology and concept are easy to apply. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme to overcome this limitation of the hybrid techniques and to take an advantage of product information obtained by customer's transaction data. In this scheme, we first divide a whole market into several unit segments based on the general variables and then agglomerate the unit segments with higher QAP correlations. Each product network represents for purchasing patterns of its corresponding segment, thus, comparisons of QAP correlation between product networks of each segment can be a good measure to compare similarities between each segment. A case study has been conducted to validate the proposed scheme. The results show that our scheme effectively works for Internet shopping malls.

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