PROMETHEE-Cluster

SOAP service’s name:
Version:	1.0
Provider:	PUT
	`PROMETHEE-Cluster-PUT` (see SOAP requests for details)

Description

Clustering using Promethee Tri and k-means algorithm

Contact: Mateusz Sarbinowski <mateusz.sarbinowski@student.put.edu.pl>

Web page: https://github.com/dohko93/mcdm/tree/master/PROMETHEE-Cluster

(For outputs, see below)

Information about criterias required to compute Promethee Tri: criteria id, criteria thresholds (indifference and preference) and criteria scales.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <criteria>.

List of alternatives.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternatives>.

The performance of alternatives.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <performanceTable>.

Weights of criteria to consider.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <criteriaValues>.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <criteriaScales>.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <criteriaThresholds>.

First parameter specifies number of output clusters K.: Where K is integer greater than 1 and less than number of alternatives. Second parameter specifies parameter P of deviation used in Promethee TRI. In this case deviation is weighted generalised mean of difference between flows on criteria, where P is used exponent.

The input value should be a valid XMCDA document whose main tag is <programParameters>. It must have the following form:

<programParameters>
    %1
    %2

where:

%1 is a parameter named “number of clusters”. This is a int, and the value should conform to the following constraint: A integer value greater than 1 and lower than the number of alternatives. More formally, the constraint is:
```
%1 > 1
```
%2 is a parameter named “distance”. This is a int. The default value is 1.
%3 is a parameter named “Use random seed”. This is a boolean. The default value is false.
%4 is a parameter named “random seed”. This is a int.

List of alternatives sets where each set representing one cluster.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <alternativesSets>.

Messages or errors generated by this module.

The returned value is a XMCDA document whose main tag is <programExecutionResult>.

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