A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived
address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service
point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the
presentation of a candidate address for matching. The set of mined data
may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building
similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms with nodes joined
according to common characteristics. A computer system and method for
maintaining a central database of preferred addresses is also disclosed.
Selected address data gathered in a queue may be scored by
characteristic, grouped by consignee location, and staged for processing.
The scored queue of data may be prioritized by clustering like
characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing
dendrograms.