A new hybrid algorithm for feature selection and its application to customer recognition
Yan Luo, Changrui Yu · International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics · 2009
An important problem in customer recognition process is to select the most valid customer features. The authors present a new optimisation algorithm that combines a global optimisation algorithm called the nested partitions algorithm and the simulated annealing method. The resulting hybrid algorithm NP/SA retains the global perspective of the nested partitions algorithm and the local search capabilities of the simulated annealing method. A detailed application of the new algorithm to a customer recognition problem is also presented. The numerical results suggest that the new framework has great computation efficiency and convergence speed and is very efficient for a difficult customer feature selection problem.