Clustering project management for drought regions determination: A case study in Serbia

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-65

  Shamshirband, Shahaboddin ^a,g   Gocić, Milan ^b   Petković, Dalibor ^b   Javidnia, Hossein ^c   Ab Hamid, Siti Hafizah ^a   Mansor, Zulkefli ^d   Qasem, Sultan Noman ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

^d Universiti Selangor   (Malaysia)

^e AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

^f TAIZ UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^g ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Clustering; Drought; Fuzzy c means; Imperialist competitive algorithm; K Medoids; Serbia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONALIZATION;

SERBIA;

EID: 84907993839     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.09.020     Document Type: Article

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