Order-constrained solutions in K-means clustering: Even better than being globally optimal

Psychometrika

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 647-664

  Steinley, Douglas ^a   Hubert, Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Dynamic programming; K means cluster analysis; Multicriterion optimization; Quadratic assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949158865     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-008-9058-z     Document Type: Article

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