Title: A method to implement effective My-page service system using three-dimensional vectors

Authors: Masayuki Kessoku, Kazuhiko Tsuda, El-Sayed Atlam, Kazuhiro Morita, Masao Fuketa, Jun-ichi Aoe

Addresses: Department of Information Science and Intelligent Science, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-shi 770-8506, Japan. ' Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Science, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-shi 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Science, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-shi 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Science, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-shi 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Science, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-shi 770-8506, Japan

Abstract: This paper proposes a method to construct My-page, which is an effective one-to-one-marketing method for internet service providers. In conventional methods, customer preference and market information are managed with two-dimensional vectors of customer and preference category axes. In this proposed method, we add time axis to make it three-dimensional vectors in order to manage the preference transitions and the market trends. One of the problems of three-dimensional vectors is its huge volume of information. In order to solve this problem, the three-dimensional vector was compressed using the MPEG algorithm. As a result, the amount of data could be compressed to less than 5%, and the problem was solved. Furthermore, we have found a few trend leaders in the groups, which confirm that there is a possibility to make appropriate recommendations to the other group member based on the transitions of the trend leaders.

Keywords: customer preferences; time progress; My-page; 3D vectors; CRM; customer relationship management; one-to-one marketing; internet service providers; ISPs; market information; market trends; MPEG; recommendations; recommender systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2009.026602

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2009 Vol.35 No.2/3/4, pp.262 - 270

Published online: 20 Jun 2009 *

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