Handling multicriteria preferences in cluster analysis

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 819-827

  Fernandez, Eduardo ^a   Navarro, Jorge ^a   Bernal, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

^b Emphasys Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data mining; Multicriteria analysis; Outranking methods

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER CENTERS; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING METHODS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA PREFERENCES; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION AID; NEW APPROACHES; OUTRANKING METHODS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; SORTING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350575297     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.05.034     Document Type: Article

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