Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm and Its Application in Judicial Practice
Open Access
- 13 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Mathematics
- Vol. 9 (4), 370
- https://doi.org/10.3390/math9040370
Abstract
The fuzzy clustering algorithm has become a research hotspot in many fields because of its better clustering effect and data expression ability. However, little research focuses on the clustering of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs). To fill in the research gaps, we extend the data type of clustering to hesitant fuzzy linguistic information. A kind of hesitant fuzzy linguistic agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm is proposed. Furthermore, we propose a hesitant fuzzy linguistic Boole matrix clustering algorithm and compare the two clustering algorithms. The proposed clustering algorithms are applied in the field of judicial execution, which provides decision support for the executive judge to determine the focus of the investigation and the control. A clustering example verifies the clustering algorithm’s effectiveness in the context of hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision information.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (71672128)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC0830400)
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