Preference mining for future home energy consumption

Autor: Shingo Aoki, Masayuki Nakano, Shuki Inoue, K. Asari, M. Kojoma, Hiroshi Tsuji, Eiji Mimura, Atsushi Takahashi
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: SMC
ISSN: 1062-922X
DOI: 10.1109/icsmc.2008.4811874
Popis: To assess the demand ldquowhat kinds of home equipment will be unveiled in the future?rdquo, this paper presents an experimental analysis for consumers preference. The experimentation consists of four steps: (1) based on the seeds map of technology for energy consumption, six services and their related products for future home are drawn, (2) For the services, questionnaire which collects consumers' preference is designed, (3) to clarify the causal relation among the preference, personal demography and value sense, three kinds of methods (VS-map, VAUD-table, Stepwise Bayesian Network) are proposed, (4) The methods are applied to the collected 1,030 responses to the questionnaire. For example, the experimentation has found the preference such that the unmarried persons make points of convenience in daily life rather than other classes of persons.
Databáze: OpenAIRE