Mining Marketing Knowledge to Explore Social Network Sites and Online Purchase Behaviors

Social network sites (SNS), as web-based services, allow users to make open or semiopen profiles within the systems they are part of, to see lists of other people in the group, and to see the relationships of people within different groups. As the development of Internet applications has matured, de...

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Published in:Applied artificial intelligence 2015-08, Vol.29 (7), p.697-732
Main Authors: Liao, Shu-Hsien, Hsiao, Pei-Yuan, Li, Chien-Wen, Lin, Yun-Fei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advertising
Algorithms
Artificial intelligence
Business
Business models
Data mining
Electronic commerce
Expert systems
Marketing
Online
Online advertising
Social networks
User behavior
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Summary:Social network sites (SNS), as web-based services, allow users to make open or semiopen profiles within the systems they are part of, to see lists of other people in the group, and to see the relationships of people within different groups. As the development of Internet applications has matured, developing and evaluating business models on social network sites has become a critical issue because these sites can be an innovative source for online marketing. Most studies in Taiwan on the behavior or marketing on SNS focus on either advertising or marketing, without picturing the overall scenario. Thus, this study investigates SNS as a research subject, and explores users' online and purchase behaviors in the cybercommunity. For this, the study uses the Apriori algorithm as an association rules approach, and cluster analysis for data mining, to categorize four kinds of online user behavior and generate purchase behavior patterns and rules. The results suggest that online users' SNS and purchase behavior knowledge are critical for the development of online business models.
ISSN:0883-9514
1087-6545
DOI:10.1080/08839514.2015.1051892