Improved fuzzy art method for initializing K-means

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 274-279

  Ilhan, Sevinc ^a   Duru, Nevcihan ^a   Adali, Esref ^b  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clustering; Improved fuzzy ART method; Initial center determination; K means clustering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER CENTERS; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING OPERATION; CLUSTERINGS; DATA CLUSTERING; ERROR MARGINS; FUZZY ART; INITIAL CENTER DETERMINATION; INITIAL CLUSTER CENTERS; INITIALIZATION POINTS; K-MEANS; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; K-MEANS CLUSTERING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78650714372     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2991/ijcis.2010.3.3.3     Document Type: Article

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