A divide-and-conquer approach for minimum spanning tree-based clustering

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 945-958

  Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Wang, Xiali ^b   Wilkes, D Mitchell ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering; Divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm; Graph algorithms; Minimum spanning tree

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; CYCLE PROPERTY; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER APPROACH; DIVISIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; IRREGULAR BOUNDARY; MINIMUM SPANNING TREE; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; STANDARD SOLUTIONS;

GRAPH THEORY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67749101107     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2009.37     Document Type: Article

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