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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2004.14.5.517

Cluster Merging Using Enhanced Density based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm  

Han, Jin-Woo (서강대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Jun, Sung-Hae (청주대학교 통계학)
Oh, Kyung-Whan (서강대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.14, no.5, 2004 , pp. 517-524 More about this Journal
Abstract
The fuzzy set theory has been wide used in clustering of machine learning with data mining since fuzzy theory has been introduced in 1960s. In particular, fuzzy C-means algorithm is a popular fuzzy clustering algorithm up to date. An element is assigned to any cluster with each membership value using fuzzy C-means algorithm. This algorithm is affected from the location of initial cluster center and the proper cluster size like a general clustering algorithm as K-means algorithm. This setting up for initial clustering is subjective. So, we get improper results according to circumstances. In this paper, we propose a cluster merging using enhanced density based fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm for solving this problem. Our algorithm determines initial cluster size and center using the properties of training data. Proposed algorithm uses grid for deciding initial cluster center and size. For experiments, objective machine learning data are used for performance comparison between our algorithm and others.
Keywords
FCM; DBFCM; En-DBFCM;
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