Clustering outdoor soundscapes using fuzzy ants

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1556-1562

  De Coensel, Bert ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a   Debacq, Kenny ^b   Nilsson, Mats E ^a   Berglund, Birgitta ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INTEC ^*

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARKS;

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ANT CLUSTERING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; FREQUENCY SPECTRUMS; FUZZY ANTS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; OPTIMAL SETS; PRIORI INFORMATIONS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS; SOUNDSCAPE; SOUNDSCAPES; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRADITIONAL CLUSTERING; URBAN PARKS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 55749107910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4630999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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