There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques

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Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms

Clustering is the unsupervised classification of patterns (observations, data items, or feature vectors) into groups (clusters). The clustering problem has been addressed in many contexts and by researchers in many disciplines; this reflects its broad appeal and usefulness as one of the steps in exploratory data analysis. However, clustering is a difficult problem combinatorially, and differences in assumptions and contexts in different communities has made the transfer of useful generic concepts and methodologies slow to occur. This paper presents an overview of pattern clustering methods from a statistical pattern recognition perspective, with a goal of providing useful advice and references to fundamental concepts accessible to the broad community of clustering practitioners. We present a taxonomy of clustering techniques, and identify cross-cutting themes and recent advances. We also describe some important applications of clustering algorithms such as image segmentation, object recognition, and information retrieval.

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Data clustering: a review

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

This paper describes a genetic guided fuzzy clustering algorithm. The fuzzy-c-means functional J/sub m/ is used as the fitness function. In two domains the approach is shown to avoid some higher values of J/sub m/ to which the fuzzy-c-means algorithm will converge under some initializations. Hence, the genetic guided approach shows promise as a clustering tool. >

Genetic fuzzy clustering

This paper is a (non-exhaustive) survey of the theory of fuzzy relations and partitions as it has been applied to various clustering algorithms. More specifically, the structural models discussed will be object and relational criterion functions, convex decompositions, numerical transitive closures, and generalized k-nearest neighbor rules. We first discuss the role clustering plays in the development of pattern recognition systems, which generally involve feature analysis, clustering, and classifier design. Then selected clustering algorithms based on each of the above methodologies will be reviewed. Recent applications from various fields which use these algorithms are documented in the references.

Some Non-Standard Clustering Algorithms

R. N. Dave's (1990) version of fuzzy c-shells is an iterative clustering algorithm which requires the application of Newton's method or a similar general optimization technique at each half step in any sequence of iterates for minimizing the associated objective function. An important computational question concerns the accuracy of the solution required at each half step within the overall iteration. The general convergence theory for grouped coordination minimization is applied to this question to show that numerically exact solution of the half-step subproblems in Dave's algorithm is not necessary. One iteration of Newton's method in each coordinate minimization half step yields a sequence obtained using the fuzzy c-shells algorithm with numerically exact coordinate minimization at each half step. It is shown that fuzzy c-shells generates hyperspherical prototypes to the clusters it finds for certain special cases of the measure of dissimilarity used. >

Numerical convergence and interpretation of the fuzzy c-shells clustering algorithm

After noting several limiting features and procedural disadvantages of typical game theoretic studies of coalition formation, a new measurement procedure based on fuzzy set theory is described A generalized Tanimoto coefficient measuring attitudinal similarity provides the fundamental basis for location and analysis of potential coalitions in a group decision‐making task The results of a pilot study using fuzzy preference matrices and α‐level sets to determine the existence and structural evolution of coalitions over time are presented Finally, some conjectures concerning the definition and future study of coalitions are advanced

James C. Bezdek

Papers

Genetic fuzzy clustering

Some Non-Standard Clustering Algorithms

Numerical convergence and interpretation of the fuzzy c-shells clustering algorithm

Coalition analysis with fuzzy sets

Numerical comparison of the RFCM and AP algorithms for clustering relational data