Nowadays, the Fuzzy C-Means method has become one of the most popular clustering methods based on minimization of a criterion function. However, the performance of this clustering algorithm may be significantly degraded in the presence of noise. This paper presents a robust clustering algorithm called Bilateral Weighted Fuzzy CMeans (BWFCM). We used a new objective function that uses some kinds...

In Part I of this paper [1], an equivalence between the concepts of fuzzy clustering and soft competitive learning in clustering algorithms is proposed on the basis of the existing literature. Moreover, a set of functional attributes is selected for use as dictionary entries in the comparison of clustering algorithms. In this paper, five clustering algorithms taken from the literature are revie...

Most of the clustering methods used in the clustering of chemical structures such as Ward’s, Group Average, Kmeans and Jarvis-Patrick, are known as hard or crisp as they partition a dataset into strictly disjoint subsets; and thus are not suitable for the clustering of chemical structures exhibiting more than one activity. Although, fuzzy clustering algorithms such as fuzzy cmeans provides an i...

Clustering is one of the data mining techniques that have been around to discover business intelligence by grouping objects into clusters using a similarity measure. Clustering is an unsupervised learning process that has many utilities in real time applications in the fields of marketing, biology, libraries, insurance, city-planning, earthquake studies and document clustering. Latent trends an...

The weighted fuzzy c-mean clustering algorithm (WFCM) and weighted fuzzy c-mean-adaptive cluster number (WFCM-AC) are extension of traditional fuzzy c-mean algorithm to stream data clustering algorithm. Clusters in WFCM are generated by renewing the centers of weighted cluster by iteration. On the other hand, WFCM-AC generates clusters by applying WFCM on the data & selecting best K± initialize...

This paper presents new algorithms (Fuzzy c-Medoids or FCMdd and Robust Fuzzy c-Medoids or RFCMdd) for fuzzy clustering of relational data. The objective functions are based on selecting c representative objects (medoids) from the data set in such a way that the total fuzzy dissimilarity within each cluster is minimized. A comparison of FCMdd with the well-known Relational Fuzzy c-Means algorit...