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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2012
Heng Cao, Shanghai, CN;
Jin Dong, Beijing, CN;
Jacqueline Giang Huong Morris, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Ming Xie, Beijing, CN;
Wen Jun Yin, Beijing, CN;
Bin Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Heng Cao, Shanghai, CN;
Jin Dong, Beijing, CN;
Jacqueline Giang Huong Morris, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Ming Xie, Beijing, CN;
Wen Jun Yin, Beijing, CN;
Bin Zhang, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method for clustering customers includes receiving a source set of customer records, wherein each customer record represents one customer, and each customer record includes at least one data attribute, and each data attribute has an attribute value; pre-processing the source set of customer records to generate a pre-processed set of customer records; executing a clustering algorithm on the pre-processed set of customer records to group the pre-processed set of customer records into clusters of a pre-defined number. The pre-processing comprises: determining the type of a customer in the source set of customer records; using a type attribute value to indicate the type of the customer in its customer record; normalizing data attribute values and type attribute values; weighting to the data attribute values and the type attribute values respectively to obtain weighted attribute values of the data attribute and weighted attribute values of the tune attribute.