• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2010

Many clustering algorithms have been used in diverse fields. When we need to group given data set into clusters, many clustering algorithms based on similarity or distance measures are considered. Most clustering works have been based on hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering algorithms. Generally, for the clustering works, researchers have used clustering algorithms case by case from these algorithms. Also they have to determine proper clustering methods subjectively by their prior knowledge. In this paper, to solve the subjective problem of clustering we make empirical comparisons of popular clustering algorithms which are hierarchical and non hierarchical techniques using Silhouette measure. We use silhouette information to evaluate the clustering results such as the number of clusters and cluster variance. We verify our comparison study by experimental results using data sets from UCI machine learning repository. Therefore we are able to use efficient and objective clustering algorithms.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.540-550
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• 2016

Spectral clustering is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis. Many existing spectral clustering algorithms typically measure the similarity by using a Gaussian kernel function or an undirected k-nearest neighbor (kNN) graph, which cannot reveal the real clusters when the data are not well separated. In this paper, to improve the spectral clustering, we consider a robust similarity measure based on the shared nearest neighbors in a directed kNN graph. We propose two novel algorithms for spectral clustering: one based on the number of shared nearest neighbors, and one based on their closeness. The proposed algorithms are able to explore the underlying similarity relationships between data points, and are robust to datasets that are not well separated. Moreover, the proposed algorithms have only one parameter, k. We evaluated the proposed algorithms using synthetic and real-world datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms not only achieve a good level of performance, they also outperform the traditional spectral clustering algorithms.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.254-268
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• 2013

For real-world clustering tasks, the input data is typically not easily separable due to the highly complex data structure or when clusters vary in size, density and shape. Kernel-based clustering has proven to be an effective approach to partition such data. In this paper, we provide an overview of several fuzzy kernel clustering algorithms. We focus on methods that optimize an fuzzy C-mean-type objective function. We highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each method. In addition to the completely unsupervised algorithms, we also provide an overview of some semi-supervised fuzzy kernel clustering algorithms. These algorithms use partial supervision information to guide the optimization process and avoid local minima. We also provide an overview of the different approaches that have been used to extend kernel clustering to handle very large data sets.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.109-118
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• 2023

Energy awareness is an essential design flaw in wireless sensor network. Clustering is the most highly regarded energy-efficient technique that offers various benefits such as energy efficiency and network lifetime. Clusters create hierarchical WSNs that introduce the efficient use of limited sensor node resources and thus enhance the life of the network. The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of the various energy efficient clustering algorithms. Analysis is based on the energy efficiency and network lifetime. This review paper provides an analysis of different energy-efficient clustering algorithms for WSNs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.221-229
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• 2004

Recently, there has been enormous growth in the amount of commercial and scientific data, such as protein sequences, retail transactions, and web-logs. Such datasets consist of sequence data that have an inherent sequential nature. However, only a few of the existing clustering algorithms consider sequentiality. This study presents a method for clustering such sequence datasets. The similarity between sequences must be decided before clustering the sequences. This study proposes a new similarity measure to compute the similarity between two sequences using a sequence element. Two clustering algorithms using the proposed similarity measure are proposed: a hierarchical clustering algorithm and a scalable clustering algorithm that uses sampling and a k-nearest neighbor method. Using a splice dataset and synthetic datasets, we show that the quality of clusters generated by our proposed clustering algorithms is better than that of clusters produced by traditional clustering algorithms.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.17-24
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• 2022

Hierarchical clustering methods have been proposed for more than sixty years and yet are used in various disciplines for relation observation and clustering purposes. In 1965, divisive hierarchical methods were proposed in biological sciences and have been used in various disciplines such as, and anthropology, ecology. Furthermore, recently hierarchical methods are being deployed in economy and energy studies. Unlike most clustering algorithms that require the number of clusters to be specified by the user, hierarchical clustering is well suited for situations where the number of clusters is unknown. This paper presents an overview of the hierarchical clustering algorithm. The dissimilarity measurements that can be utilized in hierarchical clustering algorithms are discussed. Further, the paper highlights the various and recent disciplines where the hierarchical clustering algorithms are employed.

• Molecules and Cells
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.279-288
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• 2008

The analysis of microarray data is essential for large amounts of gene expression data. In this review we focus on clustering techniques. The biological rationale for this approach is the fact that many co-expressed genes are co-regulated, and identifying co-expressed genes could aid in functional annotation of novel genes, de novo identification of transcription factor binding sites and elucidation of complex biological pathways. Co-expressed genes are usually identified in microarray experiments by clustering techniques. There are many such methods, and the results obtained even for the same datasets may vary considerably depending on the algorithms and metrics for dissimilarity measures used, as well as on user-selectable parameters such as desired number of clusters and initial values. Therefore, biologists who want to interpret microarray data should be aware of the weakness and strengths of the clustering methods used. In this review, we survey the basic principles of clustering of DNA microarray data from crisp clustering algorithms such as hierarchical clustering, K-means and self-organizing maps, to complex clustering algorithms like fuzzy clustering.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.1
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• pp.7-16
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• 2002

The Post-clustering algorithms, which cluster the results of Web search engine, have several different requirements from conventional clustering algorithms. In this paper, we propose the new post-clustering algorithm satisfying those requirements as many as possible. The proposed Concept ART is the form of combining the concept vector that have several advantages in document clustering with Fuzzy ART known as real-time clustering algorithms. Moreover we show that it is applicable to general-purpose clustering as well as post-clustering

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.219-227
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• 2002

The post-clustering algorithms, which cluster the result of Web search engine, have some different requirements from conventional clustering algorithms. In this paper, we propose the new post-clustering algorithm satisfying those of requirements as many as possible. The proposed fuzzy Concept ART is the form of combining the concept vector having several advantages in document clustering with fuzzy ART known as real time clustering algorithms on the basis of fuzzy set theory. Moreover we show that it can be applicable to general-purpose clustering as well as post clustering.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.361-373
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• 2013

There are a wide variety of clustering algorithms; subsequently, we need a measure of similarity between two clustering methods. Such a measure can compare how well different clustering algorithms perform on a set of data. More numbers of compared clustering algorithms allow for more number of valuers for a measure of similarity between two clustering methods. Thus, we need a simple tool that presents the many values of a measure of similarity to compare many clustering methods. We suggest some graphical tools to compareg many clustering methods.