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Issue title: Special Section: FLINS 2018
Guest editors: Cengiz Kahraman
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Dogan, Onura; * | Oztaysi, Basarb | Fernandez-Llatas, Carlosc
Affiliations: [a] Izmir Bakircay University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Mahallesi, Kaynaklar Caddesi, Izmir, Turkey | [b] Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey | [c] Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera S/N, Valencia, Spain
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Onur Dogan, Izmir Bakircay University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Mahallesi, Kaynaklar Caddesi, Izmir, 35665, Turkey. E-mail: onur.dogan@bakircay.edu.tr.
Abstract: There are some studies and methods in the literature to understand customer needs and behaviors from the path. However, path analysis has a complex structure because the many customers can follow many different paths. Therefore, clustering methods facilitate the analysis of the customer location data to evaluate customer behaviors. Therefore, we aim to understand customer behavior by clustering their paths. We use an intuitionistic fuzzy c-means clustering (IFCM) algorithm for two-dimensional indoor customer data; case durations and the number of visited locations. Customer location data was collected by Bluetooth-based technology devices from one of the major shopping malls in Istanbul. Firstly, we create customer paths from customer location data by using process mining that is a technique that can be used to increase the understandability of the IFCM results. Moreover, we show with this study that fuzzy methods and process mining technique can be used together to analyze customer paths and gives more understandable results. We also present behavioral changes of some customers who have a different visit by inspecting their clustered paths.
Keywords: Fuzzy c-means clustering, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, process mining, customer behaviors, indoor locations
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-179440
Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 675-684, 2020
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