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Serving as an effective tool for describing both randomness and fuzziness of qualitative concepts, the cloud model has become a common topic of research. By realizing the uncertain transformation between qualitative concepts and quantitative data, the cloud model provides a new way to deal with group decision making problems in the linguistic environment. However, classical methods based on the cloud model mainly focus on addressing problems with a small number of decision makers. In this paper, we apply the cloud model to the decision making problems that involve a large group of decision makers. Specifically, we first define a new measure of fuzzy distance for clouds based on the . On the basis of the proposed fuzzy distance measure, we then present a new similarity measure between clouds. Next, we construct an improved clustering approach based on the traditional hierarchical clustering …