In this paper we discuss the use of modern data mining (DM) methods to design risk-based insurance premiums for motor vehicles. Our objective is to predict the likelihood and expected value of future claims for each insured based on a myriad of attributes available in the database on the...

Summary In Germany, agricultural land use is very heterogeneous with respect to management orientation and productivity even at the local level. In addition, there is a wide variation in the reasons for farm exits. A review of the literature shows that a limited number of explanatory variables...

Summary For decades, there has been a heated debate about whether or not nuclear power plants contribute to childhood cancer in their respective neighbourhoods, with statisticians testifying on both sides. The present paper points to some flaws in the pro-arguments, taking a recent study...

Abstract In this paper, we investigated the utility of data mining to classify individuals into predefined categories of a target variable, based on their social and political attitude. Data collected for a social psychology study conducted in Greece in 1994 were used for this purpose. We...

Purpose – Machine scheduling plays an important role in most manufacturing industries and has received a great amount of attention from operation researchers. Production scheduling is concerned with the allocation of resources and the sequencing of tasks to produce goods and services....

The ever increasing challenges of business environment in the recent past has taught the practitioners of data mining and customer relationship management (CRM) much about delivering high‐return and efficient results. Many service sector organizations including banks are now using data mining...

Purpose – Trajectory is the path a moving object takes in space. To understand the trajectory movement patters, data mining is used. However, pattern analysis needs semantics to be understood. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to enrich trajectories with semantic annotations, such as the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an intelligent data-driven framework which provides an effective group-buying aggregation service and thus offers a new opportunity for personalized services in recommendation and advertisement. Design/methodology/approach – The work...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide a data mining approach for classifying Taiwanese healthcare institutions based on customer value assessment. Each institution type has developed its own marketing strategy along with relationship management strategies....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make the mobile e-commerce shopping more convenient and avoid information overload by a mobile e-commerce recommendation system using an improved Apriori algorithm. Design/methodology/approach Combined with the characteristics of the mobile e-commerce, an...