Title
Evaluation of clustering algorithms for financial risk analysis using MCDM methods.
Abstract
The evaluation of clustering algorithms is intrinsically difficult because of the lack of objective measures. Since the evaluation of clustering algorithms normally involves multiple criteria, it can be modeled as a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. This paper presents an MCDM-based approach to rank a selection of popular clustering algorithms in the domain of financial risk analysis. An experimental study is designed to validate the proposed approach using three MCDM methods, six clustering algorithms, and eleven cluster validity indices over three real-life credit risk and bankruptcy risk data sets. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of MCDM methods in evaluating clustering algorithms and indicate that the repeated-bisection method leads to good 2-way clustering solutions on the selected financial risk data sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.ins.2014.02.137
Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Clustering,Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM),Financial risk analysis
Financial risk,Data mining,Data set,Multiple-criteria decision analysis,Multiple criteria,Artificial intelligence,Bankruptcy,Cluster analysis,Machine learning,Credit risk,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
275
0020-0255
166
PageRank 
References 
Authors
3.73
38
3
Search Limit
100166
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Kou12527191.95
Yi Peng2130378.20
Guoxun Wang336311.99