Fuzzy clustering for symbolic data

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-204

  El Sonbaty, Yasser ^a   Ismail, M A ^b  

^a Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^b Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Hierarchical techniques; Partitioning techniques; Soft clustering; Symbolic objects

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; PARTITIONING TECHNIQUE; SYMBOLIC DATA;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032074027     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.669013     Document Type: Article

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