在現今快速變化的消費市場中,管理者若能有效掌握顧客的消費行為模式便能適時制定有效的行銷策略並且提供正確的服務以滿足顧客的需求。因此,了解顧客的消費行為便能增加企業的獲利並提昇其競爭能力。目前已有不少研究在探討顧客行為的規則,也有應用序列樣式探勘技術探討在兩個不同時間區間之下的消費行為的變化,然而卻很少有研究針對序列樣式中項目間的間隔時間做探討。因此,本研究提出TI-AprioriAll演算法用以挖掘包含間隔時間的序列樣式,並且應用在兩個不同時間區間的消費行為變化模式做探討。挖掘出兩個不同時間區間的間隔時間序列樣式後,兩兩比對並且計算其改變的程度,再將所有間隔時間序列樣式歸納為三種改變的類型(即emerging sequential patterns, unexpected sequence changed and added/perished sequential patterns)。最後,篩選出顯著的消費改變類型做分析討論,以供決策者參考制定行銷策略。
Current business undergoes the challenge of a rapid evolving market in which customer’s needs are changing over time. There have been several studies in data mining field focusing on mining changes of sequence in different time-period databases. Analyzing these changed sequences provide useful information for decision makers to make better marketing strategy to attract more customers. However, the time-intervals between successive itemsets in the sequences are not considered in their proposed methods. In fact, changed patterns with time-interval can reveal important time information for decision makers to take the right actions at the right time. Therefore, this research develops a time-interval sequential pattern change detection method to derive the change trend of customers’ behavior in two periods. First, the TI-AprioriAll algorithm, which integrated Apriori-like algorithm and k-means cluster algorithm concepts, is proposed to generate time-interval sequential patterns from two different time-period databases. Then, a time-interval sequential pattern is clarified as one of three change types (emerging sequential patterns, unexpected sequence changed and added/perished sequential patterns) through the proposed sequential pattern matching method. Finally, a set of time-interval sequential patterns with significant change are retrieved for further business analysis.