| Article ID: | iaor20063583 |
| Country: | Spain |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 35 |
| End Page Number: | 45 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
| Journal: | Fuzzy Economic Review |
| Authors: | Couturier A., Fioleau B. |
| Keywords: | economics |
This article presents a method for fuzzy classification with overlap (ssim) and the results obtained by applying it to a sample of French companies. The ssim method allows stable company clusters to be recognised. The results are discussed and compared to those yielded by other fuzzy classification methods: the K-means method and the ‘fuzzy equivalence relation-based hierarchical clustering method’.