A fuzzy clustering algorithm based on evolutionary programming

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 11792-11800

  Dong, Hongbin ^a,b   Dong, Yuxin ^a   Zhou, Cheng ^a   Yin, Guisheng ^a   Hou, Wei ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster validity; EPFCM; Evolutionary programming; Fuzzy c means algorithm

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER VALIDITY; CLUSTER VALIDITY INDICES; CONVERGENCE SPEED; EPFCM; EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHM; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING METHOD; GLOBAL SEARCH; INITIAL CLUSTER CENTERS; LOCAL OPTIMA; MODIFIED ALGORITHMS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COPYING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 67349252509     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.031     Document Type: Article

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