A taxonomy of clustering procedures

Olivier Cailloux (1) , Claude Lamboray (1) , Philippe Nemery (1)

1 CoDE - Computer & Decision Engineering

In the field of multicriteria decision aid, considerable attention has been paid to supervised classification problems, especially to so-called sorting problems, where an order is assumed on the predefined classes. Recently, some non-supervised multicriteria classification procedures, also known as multicriteria clustering procedures, have been proposed aiming to discover data structures from a multicriteria perspective. We enlighten some properties of such approaches and their differences with regards to classical procedures, and we propose a taxonomy of this family of procedures. Moreover, we analyze extend to which these procedures differ from the multicriteria ranking problematic.

Mots clés: Multicriteria clustering; Taxonomy; MCDA; Clustering; Multiple criteria analysis

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

Olivier Cailloux, Claude Lamboray, Philippe Nemery. A taxonomy of clustering procedures. 66th Meeting of the European Working Group on MCDA, 2007, Marrakech, Morocco. pp.N/A. ⟨hal-00985860⟩