A new cluster validity index for data with merged clusters and different densities

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 798-803

  Lam, Benson S Y ^a   Yan, Hong ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster Validity; Clustering; Data Classification; Unsupervised Learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SCIENCE; CYBERNETICS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER VALIDITY; CLUSTERING; DATA CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 27944456817     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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