Comparing the performance of traditional cluster analysis, self-organizing maps and fuzzy C-means method for strategic grouping

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 11772-11781

  Budayan, Cenk ^a   Dikmen, Irem ^a   Birgonul, M Talat ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C means; Self organizing map; Strategic groups; Traditional cluster analysis techniques

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; CLUSTERING METHODS; FUZZY C-MEANS; FUZZY C-MEANS METHODS; STRATEGIC GROUPS; TRADITIONAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; TURKISHS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 67349198902     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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