An experiment investigating the application of clustering procedures and similarity coefficients to the GT machine cell formation problem

摘要: This paper reports the development of a number similarity-based coefficients designed for applying hierarchical cluster analysis to group technology machine cell formation problem. The also discusses an experimental investigation these and other well-known similarity in conjunction with some clustering algorithms. mixture model approach is used investigation. A problems were generated via simulation, randomly ‘mixed’ hide original cellular structure, techniques applied. Extensions prior research include new coefficients, their comparative evaluation, incorporation concept part ‘weighting’ into analysis, hence,