The management and analysis of big data has been identified as one of the most important emerging needs in recent years. This is because of the sheer volume and increasing complexity of data being created or collected. Current clustering algorithms can not handle big data, and therefore, scalable solutions are necessary. Since fuzzy clustering algorithms have shown to outperform hard clustering...

To identify T-S models, this paper presents a so-called “subtractive fuzzy C-means clustering” approach, in which the results of subtractive clustering are applied to initialize clustering centers and the number of rules in order to perform adaptive clustering. This method not only regulates the division of fuzzy inference system input and output space and determines the relative member functio...

Medical image segmentation demands a segmentation algorithm which works against noise. The most popular algorithm used in image segmentation is Fuzzy C-Means clustering. It uses only intensity values for clustering which makes it highly sensitive to noise. The comparison of the three fundamental image segmentation methods based on fuzzy logic namely Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-M...

The problem of clustering a real s-dimensional data set X={x(1 ),,,,,x(n)} subset R(s) is considered. Usually, each observation (or datum) consists of numerical values for all s features (such as height, length, etc.), but sometimes data sets can contain vectors that are missing one or more of the feature values. For example, a particular datum x(k) might be incomplete, having the form x(k)=(25...

Clustering is a standard approach in analysis of data and construction of separated similar groups. The most widely used robust soft clustering methods are fuzzy, rough and rough fuzzy clustering. The prominent feature of soft clustering leads to combine the rough and fuzzy sets. The Rough Fuzzy C-Means (RFCM) includes the lower and boundary estimation of rough sets, and fuzzy membership of fuz...

in this article the methodology proposed by li and wang for mixed qualitative and quantitative modeling and simulation of temporal behavior of processing unit is reexamined and extended to more complex case. the main issue of their approach considers the multivariate statistics of principal component analysis (pca), along with clustered fuzzy digraphs and reasoning. the pca and fuzzy clustering...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.112 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. I org (A. Abraham). Fuzzy clustering is an important problem which is the subject of active research in several real-world applications. Fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is one of the most popular fuzzy clustering techniques because it is efficient,...

According to the standard fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm performed poor in the clustering effect during the clustering process. This paper presents an objective function optimization based on the attribute weighted and the objective function optimization. Firstly, use a little prior knowledge as the labeled sample. These calibrated samples information are used as the prior knowledge, and th...

This paper is a survey of fuzzy set theory applied in cluster analysis. These fuzzy clustering algorithms have been widely studied and applied in a variety of substantive areas. They also become the major techniques in cluster analysis. In this paper, we give a survey of fuzzy clustering in three categories. The first category is the fuzzy clustering based on fuzzy relation. The second one is t...

In this paper, we give a short review of recent developments in clustering. Clustering is the process of grouping of data, where the grouping is established by finding similarities between data based on their characteristics. Such groups are termed as Clusters. Clustering is a procedure to organizing the objects into groups or clustered together, based on the principle of maximizing the intra-c...