Data mining technology has emerged as a means for identifying patterns and trends from large quantities of data. Clustering is a primary data description method in data mining which group’s most similar data. The data clustering is an important problem in a wide variety of fields. Including data mining, pattern recognition, and bioinformatics. It aims to organize a collection of data items into...

Recently Kernelized Fuzzy C-Means clustering technique where a kernel-induced distance function is used as a similarity measure instead of a Euclidean distance which is used in the conventional Fuzzy C-Means clustering technique, has earned popularity among research community. Like the conventional Fuzzy C-Means clustering technique this technique also suffers from inconsistency in its performa...

Fuzzy co-clustering is a technique that performs simultaneous fuzzy clustering of objects and features. It is known to be suitable for categorizing high-dimensional data, due to its dynamic dimensionality reduction mechanism achieved through simultaneous feature clustering. We introduce a new fuzzy co-clustering algorithm called Heuristic Fuzzy Co-clustering with the Ruspini’s condition (HFCR),...

A genetic approach is developed, which is suitable for the optimization of fuzzy c-means clustering. The approach is based on real encoding of the prototype variables (cluster centers) and uses appropriate genetic operators and techniques to optimize the clustering criterion. Experimental results concerning diicult clustering problems show that the proposed approach is very successful in genera...

In this work, performance of the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm which is a recently proposed algorithm, has been tested on fuzzy clustering. We applied the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm fuzzy clustering to classify different data sets; Cancer, Diabetes and Heart from UCI database, a collection of classification benchmark problems. The results indicate that the performance of Artificial...

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...

This paper presents a new clustering algorithm ,which is based on fuzzy c-lines, can treat data with some errors. First, the tolerance is formulated and introduce into optimization problem of clustering. Next, the problem is solved using Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Last, the algorithm is constructed based on the results of solving the problem. Some numerical examples for the proposed method ...

In this research, the traditional fuzzy ISODATA ( FI ) algorithm is integrated with probabilistic relaxation labeling ( PRL ) algorithm to form a new clustering algorithm called relaxed fuzzy ISODATA ( RFI ). During the clustering process, both the fuzzy membership function values and local contextual information are employed for grouping data into clusters. The RFI algorithm is considered for ...

Resampling methods are among the best approaches to determine the number of clusters in prototype-based clustering. The core idea is that with the right choice for the number of clusters basically the same cluster structures should be obtained from subsamples of the given data set, while a wrong choice should produce considerably varying cluster structures. In this paper I give a brief overview...

Fuzzy C-means Clustering algorithm (FCM) is a method that is frequently used in pattern recognition. It has the advantage of giving good modeling results in many cases, although, it is not capable of specifying the number of clusters by itself. In FCM algorithm most researchers fix weighting exponent (m) to a conventional value of 2 which might not be the appropriate for all applications. Conse...