퍼지 신경망을 이용한 온라인 클러스터링 방법

A On-Line Pattern Clustering Technique Using Fuzzy Neural Networks

Most of clustering methods usually employ a center or predefined shape of a cluster to assign the input data into the cluster. When there is no information about data set, it is impossible to predict how many clusters are to be or what shape clusters take. (the shape of clusters could not be easily represented by the center or predefined shape of clusters) Therefore, it is difficult to assign input data into a proper cluster using previous methods. In this paper, to overcome such a difficulty a cluster is to be represented as a collection of several subclusters representing boundary of the cluster. And membership functions are used to represent how much input data bllongs to subclusters. Then the position of the nearest subcluster is adaptively corrected for expansion of cluster, which the subcluster belongs to by use of a competitive learning neural network. To show the validity of the proposed method a numerical example is illustrated where FMMC(Fuzzy Min-Max Clustering) algorithm is compared with the proposed method.