• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.123-140
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• 2009

Collaborative filtering recommends products using customers' preferences, so it cannot recommend products to the new customer who has no preference information. This paper proposes a novel approach to new customer recommendations using the social network analysis which is used to search relationships among social entities such as genetics network, traffic network, organization network, etc. The proposed recommendation method identifies customers most likely to be neighbors to the new customer using the centrality theory in social network analysis and recommends products those customers have liked in the past. The procedure of our method is divided into four phases : purchase similarity analysis, social network construction, centrality-based neighborhood formation, and recommendation generation. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we have conducted several experiments using a data set from a department store in Korea. Our method was compared with the best-seller-based method that uses the best-seller list to generate recommendations for the new customer. The experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms the best-seller-based method as measured by F1-measure.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.99-114
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• 2011

Collaborative Filtering (CF) suffers from two major problems:sparsity and cold-start recommendation. This paper focuses on the cold-start problem for new customers with no purchase records and the sparsity problem for the customers with very few purchase records. For the purpose, we propose a method for the new customer recommendation by using a combined measure based on three well-used centrality measures to identify the customers who are most likely to become neighbors of the new customer. To alleviate the sparsity problem, we also propose a hybrid approach that applies our method to customers with very few purchase records and CF to the other customers with sufficient purchases. To evaluate the effectiveness of our method, we have conducted several experiments using a data set from a department store in Korea. The experiment results show that the combination of two measures makes better recommendations than not only a single measure but also the best-seller-based method and that the performance is improved when applying the hybrid approach.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.19-42
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• 2012

Consumer consumption patterns are shifting rapidly as buyers migrate from offline markets to e-commerce routes, such as shopping channels on TV and internet shopping malls. In the offline markets consumers go shopping, see the shopping items, and choose from them. Recently consumers tend towards buying at shopping sites free from time and place. However, as e-commerce markets continue to expand, customers are complaining that it is becoming a bigger hassle to shop online. In the online shopping, shoppers have very limited information on the products. The delivered products can be different from what they have wanted. This case results to purchase cancellation. Because these things happen frequently, they are likely to refer to the consumer reviews and companies should be concerned about consumer's voice. E-commerce is a very important marketing tool for suppliers. It can recommend products to customers and connect them directly with suppliers with just a click of a button. The recommender system is being studied in various ways. Some of the more prominent ones include recommendation based on best-seller and demographics, contents filtering, and collaborative filtering. However, these systems all share two weaknesses : they cannot recommend products to consumers on a personal level, and they cannot recommend products to new consumers with no buying history. To fix these problems, we can use the information which has been collected from the questionnaires about their demographics and preference ratings. But, consumers feel these questionnaires are a burden and are unlikely to provide correct information. This study investigates combining collaborative filtering with the centrality of social network analysis. This centrality measure provides the information to infer the preference of new consumers from the shopping history of existing and previous ones. While the past researches had focused on the existing consumers with similar shopping patterns, this study tried to improve the accuracy of recommendation with all shopping information, which included not only similar shopping patterns but also dissimilar ones. Data used in this study, Movie Lens' data, was made by Group Lens research Project Team at University of Minnesota to recommend movies with a collaborative filtering technique. This data was built from the questionnaires of 943 respondents which gave the information on the preference ratings on 1,684 movies. Total data of 100,000 was organized by time, with initial data of 50,000 being existing customers and the latter 50,000 being new customers. The proposed recommender system consists of three systems : [+] group recommender system, [-] group recommender system, and integrated recommender system. [+] group recommender system looks at customers with similar buying patterns as 'neighbors', whereas [-] group recommender system looks at customers with opposite buying patterns as 'contraries'. Integrated recommender system uses both of the aforementioned recommender systems to recommend movies that both recommender systems pick. The study of three systems allows us to find the most suitable recommender system that will optimize accuracy and customer satisfaction. Our analysis showed that integrated recommender system is the best solution among the three systems studied, followed by [-] group recommended system and [+] group recommender system. This result conforms to the intuition that the accuracy of recommendation can be improved using all the relevant information. We provided contour maps and graphs to easily compare the accuracy of each recommender system. Although we saw improvement on accuracy with the integrated recommender system, we must remember that this research is based on static data with no live customers. In other words, consumers did not see the movies actually recommended from the system. Also, this recommendation system may not work well with products other than movies. Thus, it is important to note that recommendation systems need particular calibration for specific product/customer types.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.257-263
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• 2005

초기에 하나의 상품 카테고리만을 다루던 전자상거래 사이트들이 브랜드 확립 후에 다른 상품 카테고리까지 확대해 나가는 모습을 많이 보아왔다. 고객이 아직 방문하지 않은 신규 상품 카테고리의 상품에 대하여 기존 상품 카테고리에서 만들어진 사용자 프로파일을 활용하여 개인화된 추천을 할 수 있다면, 고객이 다양한 상품 카테고리를 방문하도록 유도할 수 있을 것이다. 하지만 일반적으로 전자상거래 사이트에서는 상품 카테고리별로 사용자의 선호도를 파악하여 개인화된 추천을 수행하기 때문에, 해당 카테고리 내 상품의 구매나 방문 기록이 없다면 개인화된 추천을 수행하기가 어렵다 . 본 논문에서는 협업 필터링을 통해 신규 상품카테고리 내의 상품을 추천하기 어려운 고객들을 대상으로 기존의 사용자 선호도 데이터를 활용하여 신규 상품 카테고리 내의 상품을 추천하는 방안의 타당성을 살펴보도록 한다. 즉, 기존 사용자의 특정상품 카테고리 선호도 데이터를 통해 사용자간 유산도를 계산하고, 이를 추천하려는 타 상품 카테고리 내의 상품들에 대한 예측 선호도 계산에 활용 타당성을 살펴본다. 이를 실증적으로 검토하기 위해서, Yes24 사이트의 서적, 음반, DVD 3개의카테고리 내의 상품을 방문한 웹 패널 데이터를 이용하여 타당성 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과, 동일 상품 카테고리 내의 선호도 정보를 가지고 현업 필터링을 수행하는 것보다는 추천 성과가 낮았지만 활용할만한 추천 성과를 보였으며, 활용하는 상품 카테고리와 예측하는 상품 카테고리별로 추천성과가 상이했다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.41-50
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• 2008

This paper proposes the recommendation system which is a new method using RFM method in mobile internet environment. Using a implict method which is not used user's profile for rating, is not used complicated query processing of the request and the response for rating, it is necessary for user to keep the RFM score about users and items based on the whole purchased data in order to recommend the items. As there are some problems which didn't exactly recommend the items with high purchasablity for new customer and new item that do not have the purchase history data. in existing recommendation systems, this proposing system is possible to solve existing problems, and also this system can avoid the duplicated recommendation by the cross comparison with the purchase history data. It can be improved and evaluated according to the criteria of logicality through the experiment with dataset, collected in a cosmetic cyber shopping mall. Finally, it is able to realize the personalized recommendation system with high purchasablity for one to one web marketing through the mobile internet.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.100-110
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• 2010

The main roots of CM service contracts include existing customer repurchases and those made by new customers by existing ones. The study on customers and loyalty can be factors to strengthen CM's competitiveness. However, there have been little attempt to study customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Construction Management (CM), the advanced construction management method, was introduced 15 years ago in the mid 1990's in the domestic market. The aim of this research is to build a model that can predict customer loyalty based on how much customers are satisfied with CM service. To measure customer satisfaction and loyalty, this research surveyed 135 decision-makers who have experienced CM services. Customer satisfaction was tested and analyzed according to different phases: planning, designing, procurement, construction, and post construction. Referral intention was tested based on NPS theory. Customer types were divided into detractors, passively satisfied and promoters according to the tested measurement and multinomial logistic regression between the satisfaction by construction phases and customer types. This research resulted to a model that can predict customer types: detractors, passively satisfied and promoters, which were determined according to satisfaction level. The initial planning phase also revealed which factor is most influential for a customer to become promoter. These results can be used to acquire customer loyalty by managing the satisfaction of customers through a project under an Internet-based environment. Such can provide the needed information in quickly exploring positive and negative word-of-mouth feedbacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1599-1607
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• 2022

The data mainly used for the model are as follows: the personal information, the information of insurance product, etc. With the data, we suggest three types of models: content-based filtering model, collaborative filtering model and classification models-based model. The content-based filtering model finds the cosine of the angle between the users and items, and recommends items based on the cosine similarity; however, before finding the cosine similarity, we divide into several groups by their features. Segmentation is executed by K-means clustering algorithm and manually operated algorithm. The collaborative filtering model uses interactions that users have with items. The classification models-based model uses decision tree and random forest classifier to recommend items. According to the results of the research, the contents-based filtering model provides the best result. Since the model recommends the item based on the demographic and user features, it indicates that demographic and user features are keys to offer more appropriate items.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.419-428
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• 2013

Real-time accessibility and agility are required in u-commerce under ubiquitous computing environment. Most of the existing recommendation techniques adopt the method of evaluation based on personal profile, which has been identified with difficulties in accurately analyzing the customers' level of interest and tendencies, as well as the problems of cost, consequently leaving customers unsatisfied. Researches have been conducted to improve the accuracy of information such as the level of interest and tendencies of the customers. However, the problem lies not in the preconstructed database, but in generating new and diverse profiles that are used for the evaluation of the existing data. Also it is difficult to use the unique recommendation method with hierarchy of each customer who has various characteristics in the existing recommendation techniques. Accordingly, this dissertation used the implicit method without onerous question and answer to the users based on the data from purchasing, unlike the other evaluation techniques. We applied FRAT technique which can analyze the tendency of the various personalization and the exact customer.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.71-94
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• 2017

Recommender systems reduce information overload and enhance choice quality. This technology is used in many services and industry. Previous studies did not consider recommendation quantity and the repetitive recommendations of an item. This study is the first to examine recommender systems by considering recommendation quantity and repetitive recommendations. Only a limited number of items are displayed in offline stores because of their physical limitations. Determining the type and number of items that will be displayed is an important consideration. In this study, I suggest the use of a user-based recommender system that can recommend the most appropriate items for each store. This model is evaluated by MAE, Precision, Recall, and F1 measure, and shows higher performance than the baseline model. I also suggest a new performance evaluation measure that includes Quantity Precision, Quantity Recall, and Quantity F1 measure. This measure considers the penalty for short or excess recommendation quantity. Novelty is defined as the proportion of items in a recommendation list that consumers may not experience. I evaluate the new revenue creation effect of the suggested model using this novelty measure. Previous research focused on recommendations for customer online, but I expand the recommender system to cover stores offline.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.13
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• pp.29-47
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• 2004

This study examined the determinants of customer satisfaction in credit card service which has grown rapidly. We are interested in the determinants that affect intention of re-use and recommendation for the credit card. And in this study we adopt and extend the customer satisfaction factors presented in the literatures of retail banking services. The results show that the factors of corporate, innovativeness, physical & staff service and fee affect the customer satisfaction of the re-use intention. We also find that additional services, innovativeness and physical & staff service are the factors for the customer satisfaction of the recommendation intention. Finally, we discuss the managerial implications with a direction of future studies.