Suppressed fuzzy c-means (S-FCM) clustering algorithm with the intention of combining the higher speed of hard c-means clustering algorithm and the better classification performance of fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm had been studied by many researchers and applied in many fields. In the algorithm, how to select the suppressed rate is a key step. In this paper, we give a method to select the...

Cluster analysis is a tool for data analysis. It is a method for finding clusters of a data set with most similarity in the same group and most dissimilarity between different groups. In general, there are two ways, mixture distributions and classification maximum likelihood method, to use probability models for cluster analysis. However, the corresponding probability distributions to most clus...

This paper presents an application of fuzzy c-means clustering to designing the fuzzy logic controller for the temperature control in electric ceramics kiln. This research aims to controlling the temperature in firing step of burning the ceramic products which were coated with black, intensely red and green chemical substances. The experimental results show that the fuzzy c-means clustering des...