Group technology (GT) is a useful way to increase productivity with high quality in cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs), in which cell formation (CF) is a key step in the GT philosophy. When boundaries between groups are fuzzy, fuzzy clustering has been successfully adapted to solve the CF problem; however, it may result uneven distribution of parts/machines where the problem becomes larger. ...

This paper presents an evolutionary particle swarm optimization (PSO) learning-based method to optimally cluster N data points into K clusters. The hybrid PSO and K-means algorithm with a novel alternative metric, called Alternative KPSO-clustering (AKPSO), is developed to automatically detect the cluster centers of geometrical structure data sets. The alternative metric is known has more robus...

Extraction of relevant information from web is gaining immense significance. This depends upon the efficacy of methods employed to represent, organise and access the information. The most important technique that is used to organise the data is clustering. Clustering problem refers to partitioning unlabeled data objects into certain number of clusters with the objective of maximum homogeneity w...

To organize the wide variety of data sets automatically and acquire accurate classification, this paper presents a modified fuzzy c-means algorithm (SP-FCM) based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and shadowed sets to perform feature clustering. SP-FCM introduces the global search property of PSO to deal with the problem of premature convergence of conventional fuzzy clustering, utilizes vag...

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,...

VANET (Vehicle Ad-hoc Network) is an emerging technology in today’s intelligent transport system. In VANET, there are many moving nodes which called the vehicle running on road. They communicate with each other to provide information driver regarding road condition, traffic, weather and parking. a kind of network where talk help equipment. There various things also make complete like OBU (onboa...

As one of the most common data mining techniques, clustering has been widely applied in many fields, among which fuzzy clustering can reflect the real world in a more objective perspective. As one of the most popular fuzzy clustering algorithms, Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering combines the fuzzy theory and K-Means clustering algorithm. However, there are some issues with FCM clustering. For exam...

The need for solving multi-modal optimization problems in high dimensions is pervasive in many practical applications. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is attracting an ever-growing attention and more than ever it has foundmany application areas formany challenging optimization problems. It is, however, a known fact that PSO has a severe drawback in the update of its global best (gbest) partic...

For a decade swarm Intelligence is concerned with the design of intelligent systems by taking inspiration from the collective behaviors of social insects. Swarm Intelligence is a successful paradigm for the algorithm with complex problems. This paper focuses on the procedure of most successful methods of optimization techniques inspired by Swarm Intelligence: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and P...