this paper considers the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time window in which each vehicle starts from a depot and there is no need to return to its primary depot after serving customers. the mathematical model which is developed by new approach aims to minimizing the transportation cost including the travelled distance, the latest and the earliest arrival time penalties. furthermore, ...

Clustering technique is one of the most important research areas in the field of data mining. This paper proposes an improved K-Means clustering algorithm form partition based clustering algorithms. It determines the initial centroid of the cluster and gives more efficient performance and reduces the time complexity of the large data sets. The data set used here is banking data. Fuzzy C-Means c...

Much research has shown that fuzzy c-means clustering is a powerful tool for partitioning samples into different categories. However, the cost function of the classical fuzzy c-means (FCM) is defined by the distances from data to the cluster centers with their fuzzy memberships. In this study, a new fuzzy clustering algorithm, namely the fuzzy weighted c-means (FWCM), is proposed. In this propo...

A neural network can approximate a function, but it is impossible to interpret the result in terms of natural language. The consolidation of neural networks and fuzzy logic in neurofuzzy models provides learning as well as readability. This paper aims at modeling the input-output relationship with fuzzy IF-THEN rules by using fuzzy clustering technique. The main difference between fuzzy cluster...

Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is based on iterative optimization tools, system initialization of a group of random solutions, through iterative search for the optimal value. The basic idea of the fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm is to determine each sample data belonging to a certain degree of clustering, and the degree of membership of sample data is grouped into a cluster. Favor opt...

As it is known, fuzzy clustering is a kind of soft clustering method and primarily based on idea of segmenting data by using membership degrees of cases which are computed for each cluster. However, most of the current fuzzy clustering modules packaged in both open source and commercial products have lack of enabling users to explore fuzzy clusters deeply and visually in terms of investigation ...

This paper proposes a fuzzy clustering model for fuzzy data with outliers. The model is based on Wasserstein distance between interval valued data, which is generalized to fuzzy data. In addition, Keller’s approach is used to identify outliers and reduce their influences. The authors also define a transformation to change the distance to the Euclidean distance. With the help of this approach, t...

This paper presents fuzzy clustering algorithms for mixed features of symbolic and fuzzy data. El-Sonbaty and Ismail proposed fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering for symbolic data and Hathaway et al. proposed FCM for fuzzy data. In this paper we give a modi3ed dissimilarity measure for symbolic and fuzzy data and then give FCM clustering algorithms for these mixed data types. Numerical examples and ...

A neural network can approximate a function, but it is impossible to interpret the result in terms of natural language. The consolidation of neural networks and fuzzy logic in neurofuzzy models provides learning as well as readability. This paper aims at modeling the input-output relationship with fuzzy IF-THEN rules by using fuzzy clustering technique. The main difference between fuzzy cluster...

In this paper, we describe the application of an adaptive fuzzy clustering algorithm to the segmentation of colour biomedical images. In comparison to traditional colour image segmentation algorithms, the advantage of this algorithm is intelligent location of a range of chosen colours (ROC) based on a manually selected reference colour. The colours within the ROC have similar colour properties ...