Tom Brijs

Naar een evidence-based en doelgroep-specifieke verkeerseducatie (2009)

BRIJS, Kris, Ruiter, Rob, BRIJS, Tom

Het ontstaan van ongevallen is een uiterst complex fenomeen dat ingebed is in een context waarbij drie verschillende componenten constant op elkaar inwerken (Wierwille et al. 2002). Deze drie...

Evaluation of road safety performance indicators using OWA operators (2008)

Hermans, Elke, Ruan, Da, Brijs, Tom, Wets, Geert, Vanhoof, Koen

Road safety performance indicators have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on their performance of road safety risk factors. New insights can be gained in case one...

THE IMPORTANCE OF AGGREGATION OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS IN MARKETING RESEARCH (2008)

Kris Brijs, Benoît Depaire, Koen Vanhoof, Tom Brijs, Geert Wets

Abstract: Our paper demonstrates that aggregation operator characteristics count as a promising avenue for applied fuzzy set research. It is shown by means of two cases that these characteristics are...

2004b), The simulation of activity diary data using sequential probability distributions. Forthcoming (2008)

Davy Janssens, Geert Wets, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

This paper has developed and evaluated a framework for simulating activity diary data. It is claimed in the paper that simulating activity diary data can be useful to assist practitioners and...

Van den Bossche, Wets and Brijs 1 A Regression Model with ARMA Errors to Investigate the Frequency and Severity of Road Traffic Accidents (2008)

Geert Wets, Tom Brijs

In this paper, models are developed to explain and forecast the frequency and severity of accidents in Belgium. The objective of this study is to enhance the understanding of the developments in road...

Approximating Activity Diary Data by Taking Sequential Dependences into Account: Development of a Simulation Framework ABSTRACT (2008)

Davy Janssens, Geert Wets, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

For the last decade, activity-based transportation models have certainly set the standard for modelling travel demand. As a result of this, the data required to estimate any activity-based model,...

ABSTRACT Using Association Rules for Product Assortment Decisions: A Case Study (2008)

Tom Brijs, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

It has been claimed that the discovery of association rules is well-suited for applications of market basket analysis to reveal regularities in the purchase behaviour of customers. Moreover, recent...

* The Use of Rule-Based Knowledge Discovery Techniques to Profile Black Spots ABSTRACT (2008)

Karolien Geurts, Geert Wets, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

In Belgium, traffic safety is currently one of the highest topics on the list of priorities of the government. The identification of black spots and black zones and profiling them in terms of...

Brijs, Wets, Krimpenfort, Offermans The Impact of Hourly Measured Speed on Accident Risk in the Netherlands: Results from an Exploratory Study using GIS (2008)

Tom Brijs, Geert Wets, Robin Krimpenfort, Col Offermans

Several scholars have defined the urgent need for more research to identify the precise relationship between speed and crash involvement more fully. In this paper, we present the first results of an...

Geurts, Wets, Brijs and Vanhoof 1 Identification and Ranking of Black Spots: Sensitivity Analysis (2008)

Karolien Geurts, Geert Wets, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

In Flanders, approximately 1014 accident locations are currently considered as ‘dangerous’. These ‘dangerous’ accident sites or ‘black spots ’ are selected by means of their historic...

Van den Bossche, Wets and Brijs 1 The Role of Exposure in the Analysis of Road Accidents: A Belgian Case-study (2008)

Geert Wets, Tom Brijs

Exposure is a key variable in traffic safety research. In the literature, it is noted as the first and primary determinant of traffic safety. In many cases, however, no valid exposure measure is...

Discovering during-temporal patterns (DTPs) in large temporal databases (2008)

Zhang, Li, Chen, Guoqing, BRIJS, Tom, Zhang, Xing

Large temporal databases (TDBs) usually contain a wealth of data about temporal events. Aimed at discovering temporal patterns with during relationship (during-temporal patterns, DTPs), which is...

Studying the effect of weather conditions on daily crash counts using a discrete time-series model (2008)

BRIJS, Tom, KARLIS, Dimitris, WETS, Geert

In previous research, significant effects of weather conditions on car crashes have been found. However, most studies use monthly or yearly data and only few studies are available analyzing the...

Hot spot analysis: Improving a local indicator of spatial association for application in traffic safety (2008)

MOONS, Elke, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

As in most European countries, traffic safety has become top priority in the National Safety Plan in Belgium. The first phase in every safety analysis concerns the identification of the hazardous...

Evaluation of road safety performance indicators using OWA operators (2008)

HERMANS, Elke, RUAN, Da, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert, VANHOOF, Koen

Road safety performance indicators have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on their performance of road safety risk factors. New insights can be gained in case one...

Fietspaden maken het verschil: onderzoek naar invloed van locatiekenmerken en type fietspad op aantal ongevallen met fietsers (2008)

DANIELS, Stijn, BRIJS, Tom, NUYTS, Erik, WETS, Geert

Rotondes hebben onmiskenbaar een positieve bijdrage geleverd tot de verkeersveiligheid. Toch vormen de veiligheidseffecten voor fietsers een punt van zorg. In eerder onderzoek bleek dat in Vlaanderen...

Assessing the Impact of Fuel Cost on Traffic Demand in Flanders using Activity-Based Models (2008)

TORMANS, Hans, JANSSENS, Davy, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

In this paper, we discuss the conceptual idea of the development of an instrument that assists local authorities in enhancing their traffic safety policy. Taking the principles of Total Quality...

Internationale vergelijking van verkeersveiligheid op basis van ongevallendata en risicofactoren (2008)

HERMANS, Elke, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

Het aantal letselongevallen en slachtoffers wordt vaak vergeleken tussen landen om een idee te krijgen van de relatieve prestatie inzake verkeersveiligheid. Het is echter zinvol om daarnaast de...

Roundabouts and safety for bicyclists: empirical results and influence of different cycle facility designs (2008)

DANIELS, Stijn, BRIJS, Tom, NUYTS, Erik, WETS, Geert

Roundabouts in general have a favourable effect on traffic safety, at least for crashes causing injuries. Especially the number of severe crashes (fatalities and crashes involving serious injuries)...

and G.Wets. Evaluating the performance of cost-based discretization versus entropyand error-based discretization (2007)

Davy Janssens, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

Discretization is defined as the process that divides continuous numeric values into intervals of discrete categorical values. In this article, the concept of cost-based discretization as a...

Geurts, Wets, Brijs and Vanhoof 1 * corresponding author PROFILING HIGH FREQUENCY ACCIDENT LOCATIONS USING ASSOCIATION RULES (2007)

Karolien Geurts, Geert Wets, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

In Belgium, traffic safety is currently one of the government’s highest priorities. Identifying and profiling black spots and black zones in terms of accident related data and location...

Janssens, Wets, Brijs, Vanhoof and Timmermans 1 * corresponding author Identifying Behavioral Principles underlying Activity Patterns by means of Bayesian Networks (2007)

Davy Janssens, Geert Wets, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Harry Timmermans

Capturing behavioral principles within the context of activity-based travel patterns is of vital importance to build adequate transportation planning models. Of course, there is no solitarily model...

ABSTRACT Using Association Rules for Product Assortment Decisions: A Case Study (2007)

Tom Brijs, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

It has been claimed that the discovery of association rules is well-suited for applications of market basket analysis to reveal regularities in the purchase behaviour of customers. Moreover, recent...

Integrating Classification and Association Rules by proposing adaptations to the CBA Algorithm (2007)

Davy Janssens, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

In recent years, extensive research has been carried out by focusing on association rules to build more accurate classifiers. These integrated approaches mainly focus on a limited subset of...

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Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

Abstract. Many algorithms in decision tree learning have not been designed to handle numerically-valued attributes very well. Therefore, discretization of the continuous feature space has to be...

Cost Sensitive Discretization of Numeric Attributes (2007)

Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof

Many algorithms in decision tree learning are not designed to handle numeric valued attributes very well. Therefore, discretization of the continuous feature space has to be carried out. In this...

A Bayesian model for ranking hazardous road sites (2007)

BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert, KARLIS, Dimitris, VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip

Road safety has recently become a major concern in most modern societies. The identification of sites that are more dangerous than others (black spots) can help in better scheduling road safety...

Driving with intelligent speed adaptation: Final results of the Belgian ISA-trial (2007)

De Mol, Johan, Panis, Luc Int, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert, VLASSENROOT, Sven, BROEKX, Steven

In October 2002 the first ISA-trial in Belgium was started in Ghent. Thirty-four cars and three buses were equipped with the "active accelerator pedal". In this system a resistance in the accelerator...

A Bayesian model for ranking hazardous road sites (2007)

BRIJS, Tom, KARLIS, Dimitris, VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert

Road safety has recently become a major concern in most modern societies. The identification of sites that are more dangerous than others (black spots) can help in better scheduling road safety...

Driving with intelligent speed adaptation: Final results of the Belgian ISA-trial (2007)

VLASSENROOT, Sven, BROEKX, Steven, De Mol, Johan, Panis, Luc Int, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

In October 2002 the first ISA-trial in Belgium was started in Ghent. Thirty-four cars and three buses were equipped with the "active accelerator pedal". In this system a resistance in the accelerator...

Analysis of road risk by age and gender category - Time series approach (2007)

VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom

A road safety analysis for different age and gender categories of road users is introduced. In contrast to many previous studies, the time series of road crashes by age and gender category is...

The importance of aggregation operator characteristics in marketing research (2007)

BRIJS, Kris, DEPAIRE, Benoit, VANHOOF, Koen, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

Our paper demonstrates that aggregation operator characteristics count as a promising avenue for applied fuzzy set research. It is shown by means of two cases that these characteristics are...

The Impact of Weather Conditions on Road Safety Investigated on an Hourly Basis (2006)

HERMANS, Elke, BRIJS, Tom, Stiers, T, Offermans, C

In this paper we investigate the impact of several weather conditions on the hourly number of crashes in the Netherlands during 2002. The impact of 17 climatic factors, belonging to the categories...

Predicting road crashes using calendar data (2006)

VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom

In road safety, macroscopic models are developed to support the quantitative targets in safety programmes. Targets are based on estimated numbers of fatalities and crashes that are typically derived...

Defining the public support: what can determine acceptability of road safety measures by a general public? (2006)

VLASSENROOT, Sven, De Mol, J., BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

Increasing road safety is one of the main goals in traffic policy. Measures to increase.(sustainable) road safety can be divided into infrastructural measures, which make road infrastructure and...

The impact of hourly measured speed on accident risk in the Netherlands: results from an exploratory study using GIS (2006)

BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert, Krimpenfort, R., Offermans, C.

Several scholars have defined the urgent need for more research to identify the precise relationship between speed and crash involvement more fully. In this paper, we present the first results of an...

Using Fuzzy Set Theory to Assess Country-of-Origin Effects on the Formation of Product Attitude. (2006)

BRIJS, Kris, VANHOOF, Koen, BRIJS, Tom, Karlis, D.

Several researchers on country-of-origin (coo) have expressed their interest in knowing how consumers’ emotional reactions toward coo-cues affect product attitude formation. This paper shows how...

A model for identifying and ranking dangerous accident locations: a case study in Flanders (2006)

BRIJS, Tom, VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, Karlis, D.

These days, road safety has become a major concern in most modern societies. In this respect, the determination of road locations that are more dangerous than others (black spots or also called sites...

Ranking and selecting dangerous crash locations: Correcting for the number of passengers and Bayesian ranking plots (2006)

GEURTS, Karolien, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, Karlis, D.

Introduction: In this paper a sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate how big the impact would be on the current ranking of crash locations in Flanders (Belgium) when only taking into...

Evaluating the performance of cost-based discretization versus entropy- and error-based discretization (2006)

JANSSEN, Daniel, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, WETS, Geert

Discretization is defined as the process that divides continuous numeric values into intervals of discrete categorical values. In this article, the concept of cost-based discretization as a...

Integrating Bayesian networks and decision trees in a sequential rule-based transportation model (2006)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, Arentze, T., TIMMERMANS, Harry

Several activity-based transportation models are now becoming operational and are entering the stage of application for the modelling of travel demand. Some of these models use decision rules to...

¿Es útil para los minoristas la información que se puede extraer de las tarjetas de lealtad?: Un análisis empírico basado en un enfoque mixto Binomial-Poisson (2006)

Gázquez, A, Sánchez-Pérez, M, BRIJS, Tom, SWINNEN, Gilbert

Las tarjetas de lealtad han alcanzado un elevado grado de difusión entre los minoristas. Sin embargo, ¿en qué medida la información que se puede extraer de ellas es útil?. El objetivo principal...

The Impact of Weather Conditions on Road Safety Investigated on an Hourly Basis (2006)

HERMANS, Elke, BRIJS, Tom, Stiers, T, Offermans, C

In this paper we investigate the impact of several weather conditions on the hourly number of crashes in the Netherlands during 2002. The impact of 17 climatic factors, belonging to the categories...

Predicting road crashes using calendar data (2006)

VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom

In road safety, macroscopic models are developed to support the quantitative targets in safety programmes. Targets are based on estimated numbers of fatalities and crashes that are typically derived...

Defining the public support: what can determine acceptability of road safety measures by a general public? (2006)

VLASSENROOT, Sven, De Mol, J., BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert

Increasing road safety is one of the main goals in traffic policy. Measures to increase.(sustainable) road safety can be divided into infrastructural measures, which make road infrastructure and...

The impact of hourly measured speed on accident risk in the Netherlands: results from an exploratory study using GIS (2006)

BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert, KRIMPENFORT, Robin, Offermans, C.

Several scholars have defined the urgent need for more research to identify the precise relationship between speed and crash involvement more fully. In this paper, we present the first results of an...

Using Fuzzy Set Theory to Assess Country-of-Origin Effects on the Formation of Product Attitude. (2006)

BRIJS, Kris, VANHOOF, Koen, BRIJS, Tom, KARLIS, Dimitris

Several researchers on country-of-origin (coo) have expressed their interest in knowing how consumers’ emotional reactions toward coo-cues affect product attitude formation. This paper shows how...

A model for identifying and ranking dangerous accident locations: a case study in Flanders (2006)

BRIJS, Tom, VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, KARLIS, Dimitris

These days, road safety has become a major concern in most modern societies. In this respect, the determination of road locations that are more dangerous than others (black spots or also called sites...

Ranking and selecting dangerous crash locations: Correcting for the number of passengers and Bayesian ranking plots (2006)

GEURTS, Karolien, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, KARLIS, Dimitris

Introduction: In this paper a sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate how big the impact would be on the current ranking of crash locations in Flanders (Belgium) when only taking into...

Evaluating the performance of cost-based discretization versus entropy- and error-based discretization (2006)

JANSSENS, Davy, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, WETS, Geert

Discretization is defined as the process that divides continuous numeric values into intervals of discrete categorical values. In this article, the concept of cost-based discretization as a...

Integrating Bayesian networks and decision trees in a sequential rule-based transportation model (2006)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, Arentze, T., TIMMERMANS, Harry

Several activity-based transportation models are now becoming operational and are entering the stage of application for the modelling of travel demand. Some of these models use decision rules to...

Adapting the CBA algorithm by means of intensity of implication (2005)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

In recent years, extensive research has been carried out by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated approaches is to focus on a limited subset of...

The development of an adapted Markov chain modelling heuristic and simulation framework in the context of transportation research (2005)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

This paper has developed and evaluated the implementation of an adapted Markov Chain modelling heuristic and simulation framework in the context of transportation research. In order to gain insight...

Role of exposure in analysis of road accidents - A Belgian case study (2005)

VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom

Exposure is a key variable in traffic safety research. In the literature, it is noted as the first and primary determinant of traffic safety. In many cases, however, no valid exposure measure is...

Using an adapted classification based on associations algorithm in an activity-based transportation system (2005)

Janssens, D., WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

A lot of research has been carried out in the past by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated approaches is to focus on a limited subset of...

Adapting the CBA algorithm by means of intensity of implication (2005)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

In recent years, extensive research has been carried out by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated approaches is to focus on a limited subset of...

The development of an adapted Markov chain modelling heuristic and simulation framework in the context of transportation research (2005)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

This paper has developed and evaluated the implementation of an adapted Markov Chain modelling heuristic and simulation framework in the context of transportation research. In order to gain insight...

Role of exposure in analysis of road accidents - A Belgian case study (2005)

VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Filip, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom

Exposure is a key variable in traffic safety research. In the literature, it is noted as the first and primary determinant of traffic safety. In many cases, however, no valid exposure measure is...

Using an adapted classification based on associations algorithm in an activity-based transportation system (2005)

Janssens, D., WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

A lot of research has been carried out in the past by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated approaches is to focus on a limited subset of...

A multivariate Poisson mixture model for marketing applications (2004)

Manchanda, P, BRIJS, Tom, KARLIS, Dimitris, SWINNEN, Gilbert, VANHOOF, Koen, WETS, Geert

This paper describes a multivariate Poisson mixture model for clustering supermarket shoppers based on their purchase frequency in a set of product categories. The multivariate nature of the model...

Building an association rules framework to improve product assortment decisions (2004)

BRIJS, Tom, SWINNEN, Gilbert, VANHOOF, Koen, WETS, Geert

It has been claimed that the discovery of association rules is well suited for applications of market basket analysis to reveal regularities in the purchase behaviour of customers. However today, one...

Improving performance of multiagent rule-based model for activity pattern decisions with Bayesian networks (2004)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, TIMMERMANS, Harry, Arentze, T

Several activity-based models are now becoming operational and are entering the stage of application in transport planning. Some of these models use a set of decision trees to support decision making...

Identification and ranking of black spots - Sensitivity analysis (2004)

GEURTS, Karolien, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

In Flanders, Belgium, approximately 1,014 accident locations are considered dangerous. These dangerous accident sites, or black spots, are selected by means of historic accident records for the...

A multivariate Poisson mixture model for marketing applications (2004)

Manchanda, P, BRIJS, Tom, KARLIS, Dimitris, SWINNEN, Gilbert, VANHOOF, Koen, WETS, Geert

This paper describes a multivariate Poisson mixture model for clustering supermarket shoppers based on their purchase frequency in a set of product categories. The multivariate nature of the model...

Building an association rules framework to improve product assortment decisions (2004)

BRIJS, Tom, SWINNEN, Gilbert, VANHOOF, Koen, WETS, Geert

It has been claimed that the discovery of association rules is well suited for applications of market basket analysis to reveal regularities in the purchase behaviour of customers. However today, one...

Improving performance of multiagent rule-based model for activity pattern decisions with Bayesian networks (2004)

JANSSENS, Davy, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, Arentze, T, TIMMERMANS, Harry

Several activity-based models are now becoming operational and are entering the stage of application in transport planning. Some of these models use a set of decision trees to support decision making...

Identification and ranking of black spots - Sensitivity analysis (2004)

GEURTS, Karolien, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

In Flanders, Belgium, approximately 1,014 accident locations are considered dangerous. These dangerous accident sites, or black spots, are selected by means of historic accident records for the...

Comparing complete and partial classification for identifying customers at risk (2003)

BLOEMER, Johanna, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, SWINNEN, Gilbert

This paper evaluates complete versus partial classification for the problem of identifying customers at risk. We define customers at risk as customers reporting overall satisfaction, but these...

Profiling of high-frequency accident locations by use of association rules (2003)

GEURTS, Karolien, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

In Belgium, traffic safety is one of the government's highest priorities. The identification and profiling of black spots and black zones (geographical locations with high concentrations of traffic...

Comparing complete and partial classification for identifying customers at risk (2003)

BLOEMER, Johanna, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen, SWINNEN, Gilbert

This paper evaluates complete versus partial classification for the problem of identifying customers at risk. We define customers at risk as customers reporting overall satisfaction, but these...

Profiling of high-frequency accident locations by use of association rules (2003)

GEURTS, Karolien, WETS, Geert, BRIJS, Tom, VANHOOF, Koen

In Belgium, traffic safety is one of the government's highest priorities. The identification and profiling of black spots and black zones (geographical locations with high concentrations of traffic...

Efficient Frequent Pattern Mining (2002)

Bart Goethals, Tom Brijs, Toon Calders, Christian Hidber, Paolo Palmerini

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Survey on Frequent Pattern Mining 3. Interactive Constrained Association Rule Mining 4. Upper Bounds

A Data Mining Framework for Optimal Product Selection in Retail Supermarket Data: The Generalized PROFSET Model (2001)

Brijs, Tom, Goethals, Bart, Swinnen, Gilbert, Vanhoof, Koen, Wets, Geert

In recent years, data mining researchers have developed efficient association rule algorithms for retail market basket analysis. Still, retailers often complain about how to adopt association rules...

Using shopping baskets to cluster supermarket customers (2001)

Tom Brijs, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

Abstract. Today, competition forces consumer goods manufacturers and retailers to differentiate from their competitors by specializing and by offering goods/services that are tailored towards one or...

A data mining framework for optimal product selection in retail supermarket data: the generalized PROFSET model (2000)

Tom Brijs, Bart Goethals, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

In recent years, data mining researchers have developed ecient association rule algorithms for retail market basket analysis. Still, retailers often complain about how to adopt association rules to...

A data mining framework for optimal product selection in retail supermarket data: the generalized PROFSET model (2000)

Tom Brijs, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

Abstract-Previous research in the field of data mining has diapers also tend to buy beer during the same shopping visit. demonstrated that the technique of association rules is very well suited to...

A data mining framework for optimal product selection in retail supermarket data: the generalized PROFSET model (2000)

Tom Brijs, Bart Goethals, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

In recent years, data mining researchers have developed efficient association rule algorithms for retail market basket analysis. Still, retailers often complain about how to adopt association rules...

A data mining framework for optimal product selection in retail supermarket data: the generalized PROFSET model (2000)

Tom Brijs, Bart Goethals, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

In recent years, data mining researchers have developed efficient association rule algorithms for retail market basket analysis. Still, retailers often complain about how to adopt association rules...

Reducing redundancy in characteristic rule discovery by using integer programming techniques (2000)

Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

The discovery of characteristic rules is a well-known data mining technique and has lead to several successful applications. Unfortunately, typically a (very) large number of rules is discovered...

A Data Mining Framework for Optimal Product Selection in Retail Supermarket Data: The Generalized PROFSET Model (2000)

Tom Brijs, Bart Goethals, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

In recent years, data mining researchers have developed efficient association rule algorithms for retail market basket analysis. Still, retailers often complain about how to adopt association rules...

Reducing Redundancy in Characteristic Rule Discovery By Using Integer Programming Techniques (2000)

Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

The discovery of characteristic rules is a well-known data mining task and has lead to several successful applications. However, because of the descriptive nature of characteristic rules, typically a...

A data mining framework for optimal product selection in retail supermarket data: the generalized PROFSET model (2000)

Tom Brijs, Bart Goethals, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

In recent years, data mining researchers have developed efficient association rule algorithms for retail market basket analysis. Still, retailers often complain about how to adopt association rules...

Using association rules for product assortment decisions: A case study (1999)

Tom Brijs, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

Association rules is a recent data mining technique to discover affinities, in large transaction databases, between items frequently purchased together. It has been claimed that the discovery of...

Using fuzzy set theory to assess country-of-origin effects on te formation of product attitude (1998)

Kris Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Tom Brijs, Dimitris Karlis

Abstract. Several researchers on country-of-origin (coo) have expressed their interest in knowing how consumers ’ emotional reactions toward coo-cues affect product attitude formation. This paper...

A Bayesian model for ranking hazardous road sites

Tom Brijs, Dimitris Karlis, Geert Wets

Road safety has recently become a major concern in most modern societies. The identification of sites that are more dangerous than others (black spots) can help in better scheduling road safety...

Driving with intelligent speed adaptation: Final results of the Belgian ISA-trial

Vlassenroot, Sven, Broekx, Steven, Mol, Johan De, Panis, Luc Int, Brijs, Tom, Wets, Geert

In October 2002 the first ISA-trial in Belgium was started in Ghent. Thirty-four cars and three buses were equipped with the "active accelerator pedal". In this system a resistance in the accelerator...

Benchmarking road safety: Lessons to learn from a data envelopment analysis

Hermans, Elke, Brijs, Tom, Wets, Geert, Vanhoof, Koen

Road safety performance indicators (SPI) have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on the performance of different risk aspects of their road safety system. In this...

Injury crashes with bicyclists at roundabouts: influence of some location characteristics and the design of cycle facilities

DANIELS, Stijn, BRIJS, Tom, NUYTS, Erik, WETS, Geert

Problem: Previous research indicated that conversions of intersections into roundabouts appear to increase the number of injury crashes with bicyclists. However, it was assumed that the effectiveness...