Abstract
In this paper, a sparse representation-based intuitionistic fuzzy clustering (SRIFC) approach is presented for solving the large-scale decision making (LSDM) problem. It consists of two algorithms: the sparse representation-based intuitionistic fuzzy clustering-exactly precision algorithm (which is presented for an exactly precision requirement), and the sparse representation-based intuitionistic fuzzy clustering-soft precision and scalable algorithm (which is proposed for soft precision and scalable requirements). In the proposed SRIFC approach, decision makers are clustered into several interest groups according to their interest preferences and relation sparsity of their intuitionistic fuzzy assessment information. The purpose of the presented SRIFC approach is to investigate the group intra-relations among DMs and to detect the group leaders for each interest group during the clustering process. According to the illustrative experiment results, the presented SRIFC approach is an adaptive and the unsupervised clustering method and presents more robust and efficient for LSDM problems.