Fast cluster polygonization and its applications in data-rich environments

GeoInformatica

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 399-422

  Lee, Ickjai ^a   Estivill Castro, Vladimir ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster polygonization; Delaunay diagram; Geographical data mining; Patterns and clusters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTER POLYGONIZATION; DELAUNAY DIAGRAM; GEOGRAPHICAL DATA MINING;

DATA MINING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATA SET; DIAGRAM; MAP; MODELING; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 33846442458     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-006-0340-x     Document Type: Article

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