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Market Segmentation using Bagged Fuzzy C–Means (BFCM): Destination Image of Western Europe among Chinese Travellers

D'Urso, Pierpaolo; Prayag, Girish; Disegna, Marta; … - Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2013

Market segmentation offers several strategic and tactical advantages to marketers. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical segmentation methods have several weaknesses but remain widely applied in tourism studies. Alternative segmentation methods such as fuzzy, mixture models, and Bagged Clustering...

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HYBRID CODING PSO-ACO CO-EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS

GAO, YUELIN; WANG, MIAOMIAO - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 30 (2013) 03, pp. 1340001-1

solve the bound constrained mixed-integer programming problem (BCMIP). For the specificity of the problem, the hybrid coding … includes the real coding and the integer coding. The real coding part is evolved by PSO while the integer coding part is …

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2:1 UPSAMPLING-DOWNSAMPLING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM

Tănase, Mihai Cristian; Zaharescu, Mihai; Bucur, Ion - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 7 (2013) 2, pp. 294-299

In this paper the subject that is considered is an efficient way to send images over an unreliable network link, so that with a small bandwidth, the receiver obtains data at the best quality in an acceptable time. This paper resumes a study that was made, presented in detail, and gives an...

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The impact of coding time on the estimation of school effects

Anumendem, Nkafu; Fraine, Bieke De; Onghena, Patrick; … - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 2, pp. 1021-1040

outcomes efficiently. The coding of the time variable in these models plays a crucial role as illustrated in this study for the … case of a three-level quadratic growth curve model. This paper shows clearly how the choice of a time coding affects school … and slopes is proposed. This study recommends that the choice of a time coding should not only be based on the ease of …

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Farm tourism experiences in travel reviews: A cross-comparison of three alternative methods for data analysis

Capriello, Antonella; Mason, Peyton R.; Davis, Boyd; … - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 6, pp. 778-785

data found in online travel reviews. Manual content coding, corpus-based semantic analysis, and stance-shift analysis … the similarities across all three analyses. The current study shows manual content coding, corpus-based semantic method …

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