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Problem Decomposition and Data Reorganization by a Clustering Technique

Operations ResearchPublished 1 October 1972
William T. McCormick, Paul J. Schweitzer, Thomas W. White
Citations711
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.56
SNIP1.83

TL;DR

The bond energy algorithm operates upon a raw input object-object or object-attribute data array by permuting its rows and columns in order to find informative variable groups and their interrelations.

Abstract

A new cluster-analysis method, the bond energy algorithm, has been developed recently; it operates upon a raw input object-object or object-attribute data array by permuting its rows and columns in order to find informative variable groups and their interrelations. This paper describes the algorithm and illustrates by several examples its use for both problem decomposition and data reorganization.

Keywords

Engineering