Manual and Automatic Methods for User Needs Detection in Requirements Engineering: Key Concepts and Challenges

User needs inform designers and developers of essential functionalities for requirements engineering. In this work, we summarize key concepts and challenges relating to manual and automatic user needs detection methods. We discuss six challenges with manual and eight challenges with automated methods. A. Challenges of Manual Methods • A01: Limited sample sizes. • A02: Budgetary…… Continue reading Manual and Automatic Methods for User Needs Detection in Requirements Engineering: Key Concepts and Challenges

Soft Computing: Impactful Tools in Customer Segmentation

Introduction Knowing your customers is essential to a successful business. It helps establish a rapport between the customers and the business, and makes the customers personally attached to what they are buying. Customer segmentation helps organizations recognize customers with similarities as a group rather than as individuals. It makes it easy to serve consumers efficiently…… Continue reading Soft Computing: Impactful Tools in Customer Segmentation

Customer Segmentation in a Large Database of an Online Customized Fashion Business

Introduction and the Research Problem The paper “Customer segmentation in a large database of an online customized fashion business” (2015) by Pedro Quelhas Brito, Carlos Soares, Sergio Almeida, Ana Monte and Michel Byvoet sets out to explore how data mining (DM) techniques can be used to drive marketing approaches in highly customized industries, such as…… Continue reading Customer Segmentation in a Large Database of an Online Customized Fashion Business