An extension of PROMETHEE to hierarchical multicriteria clustering

Multicriteria clustering can be seen as a hybridisation between ranking and sorting problematic. These methods are used to build totally or partially ordered groups of alternatives based on preference relations. In the context of totally ordered clustering, two hierarchical approaches (top-down and bottom-up) based on PROMETHEE II have been developed in this paper. These methods rely on the optimisation of the clustering structure (by maximising...