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Rough Set Approach to Customer Satisfaction Analysis
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Decision Support
Rough Set Approach to Customer Satisfaction Analysis
Salvatore Greco1, Benedetto Matarazzo1 and Roman Słowiński2
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Faculty of Economics, University of Catania, Corso Italia, 55, 95129 Catania, Italy |
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Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology, 60-965 Poznań, and Institute for Systems Research, Polish
Academy of Sciences, 01-447 Warsaw, Poland |
Abstract
Customer satisfaction analysis has become a hot issue in strategic management. The basis of any decision in this field is
the analysis of the answers of a sample of customers to a specific questionnaire. Traditionally, using a methodology called
conjoint analysis, the data obtained from the questionnaires are used to build a collective utility function representing
customer preferences. This utility function permits to measure the satisfaction of the customers and to determine the most
critical features relevant for the appreciation of the considered products or services. In this paper, we propose an alternative
methodology to analyze the data from the questionnaire. Our approach is based on the rough set methodology and represents
the preferences of the customers by means of simple decision rules such as “if feature α is considered good and feature β is considered sufficient, then the overall evaluation of the product is medium”. The interpretation of the decision rules
is simpler and more direct than the interpretation of the utility function given by conjoint analysis. Moreover, the capacity
of representing customer preferences in terms of easily understandable “if ..., then...” statements expressed in the natural
language makes our approach particularly interesting for Kansei Engineering. The proposed methodology gives also some indications
relative to strategic interventions aimed at improving the quality of the offered products and services. The expected efficiency
of these interventions is measured, which is very useful for the definition of proper customer satisfaction strategies. Our
approach supplies an integrated support to customer satisfaction oriented management.
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