MACLAW: A modular approach for clustering with local attribute weighting

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1299-1306

  Blansche A ^a   Gancarski P ^a   Korczak, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering criterion; Complex data; Cooperative coevolution; Feature weighting; Modular clustering

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING CRITERION; COMPLEX DATA; COOPERATIVE COEVOLUTION; FEATURE WEIGHTING; MODULAR CLUSTERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33646511082     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.07.027     Document Type: Article

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