Using expert's rules as background knowledge in the ClusDM methodology

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 864-875

  Valls, Aida ^a   Batet, Montserrat ^a   López, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Environment; Expert systems; Fuzzy sets; Multiple criteria analysis

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AGGLOMERATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CONTAMINATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; FUZZY SETS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; SORTING;

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGES; CLUSTERING PROCESSES; COMPLEX DOMAINS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CONTEXT INFORMATIONS; ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; NEW ALGORITHMS; RISK OF CONTAMINATIONS; SORTING METHODS; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 56349171857     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.11.019     Document Type: Article

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