A new fuzzy clustering algorithm for optimally finding granular prototypes

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 109-124

  Xie, Ying ^a   Raghavan, Vijay V ^a   Dhatric, Praveen ^a   Zhao, Xiaoquan ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

3M algorithm; Fuzzy clustering; Granular prototype; Prototype Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; GRANULAR PROTOTYPE; MULTI-STEP MAXMIN AND MERGING ALGORITHM (3M ALGORITHM); PROTOTYPE REASONING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 19044365478     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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