Hesitant fuzzy agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithms

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 562-576

  Zhang, Xiaolu ^a   Xu, Zeshui ^a,b  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

agglomerative hierarchical clustering; hesitant fuzzy distance; hesitant fuzzy set; interval valued hesitant fuzzy set

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908151363     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2013.797037     Document Type: Article

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