A GA-Based Clustering Algorithm for Large Data Sets with Mixed Numeric and Categorical Values

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5286, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 171-174

  Li, Jie ^a   Gao, Xinbo ^a   Jiao, Li Cheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Cluster analysis; Genetic algorithm; Numeric data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CATEGORICAL DATA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NUMERIC DATA;

DATA MINING;

EID: 1242330337     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.538864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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