Trail-and-error approach for determining the number of clusters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3930 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 229-238

  Sun, Haojun ^a   Sun, Mei ^a  

^a University of Hebei   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMBER THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

CLUSTERS; COMPUTATION SPEED; FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; TRAIL-AND-ERROR APPROACH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33745767965     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11739685_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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