Fuzzy clustering with weighting of data variables

We introduce an objective function based fuzzy clustering technique that assigns one in uence parameter to each single data vari able for each cluster Our method is not only suited to detect structures or groups in unevenly over the structure s single domains distributed data but gives also information about the in uence of individual variables on the detected groups In addition our ap proach can be seen as a generalization of the well known fuzzy c means clustering al gorithm