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...

An improved initialization method for fuzzy cmeans (FCM) method is proposed which aims at solving the two important issues of clustering performance affected by initial cluster centers and number of clusters. A density based approach is needed to identify the closeness of the data points and to extract cluster center. DBSCAN approach defines ε–neighborhood of a point to determine the core objec...

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...

Fuzzy clustering has been widely used for analysis of gene expression microarray data. However, most fuzzy clustering algorithms require complete datasets and, because of technical limitations, most microarray datasets have missing values. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm where genes are clustered using the Fuzzy C-Means algorithm (FCM). The fuzzy partition obtained is then u...

Clustering is a key process in data mining for revealing structure and patterns in data. Fuzzy C-means (FCM) is a popular algorithm using a partitioning approach for clustering. One advantage of FCM is that it converges rapidly. In addition, using fuzzy sets to represent the degrees of cluster membership of each data point provides more information regarding relationships within the data than d...

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,...

Many variants of fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering method are applied to crisp numbers but only a few of them are extended to non-crisp numbers, mainly due to the fact that the latter needs complicated equations and exhausting calculations. Vector form of fuzzy c-means (VFCM), proposed in this paper, simplifies the FCM clustering method applying to non-crisp (symbolic interval and fuzzy) numbers. ...

with rapid development in information gathering technologies and access to large amounts of data, we always require methods for data analyzing and extracting useful information from large raw dataset and data mining is an important method for solving this problem. clustering analysis as the most commonly used function of data mining, has attracted many researchers in computer science. because o...