Fuzzy ants and clustering

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 758-769

  Kanade, Parag M ^a   Hall, Lawrence O ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Clustering; Fuzzy C means (FCM); Fuzzy partition validity; Hard C means (HCM); Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; FUZZY C-MEANS; FUZZY PARTITION VALIDITY; HARD C-MEANS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 34548204908     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.902655     Document Type: Article

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