Establishing performance evaluation structures by fuzzy relation-based cluster analysis

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 572-582

  Guh, Yuh Yuan ^a   Yang, Miin Shen ^a   Po, Rung Wei ^b   Stanley Lee, E ^c  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy cluster analysis; Fuzzy relation; Fuzzy sets; Hierarchical evaluation structure; Max ti composition; Performance evaluation; ti norm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FUZZY CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY RELATION; HIERARCHICAL EVALUATION STRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 44149089310     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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