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CEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
In case the objective function to be minimized is not known analytically and no assumption can be made about the single extremum, global optimization (GO) methods must be used. Pap...
NIPS
2008
15 years 1 months ago
2008
Aiming towards the development of a general clustering theory, we discuss abstract axiomatization for clustering. In this respect, we follow up on the work of Kleinberg, ([1]) tha...
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PKDD
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
Hierarchical clustering methods are widely used in various scientific domains such as molecular biology, medicine, economy, etc. Despite the maturity of the research field of hie...
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DMKD
1997
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
1997
ACM
Partitioning a large set of objects into homogeneous clusters is a fundamental operation in data mining. The k-means algorithm is best suited for implementing this operation becau...
EOR
2010
14 years 11 months ago
2010
Traditionally, clustering problems are investigated under the assumption that all objects must be clustered. A shortcoming of this formulation is that a few distant objects, calle...