Computing approximate value of the pbm index for counting number of clusters using genetic algorithm

2011 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems, ReTIS 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 241-245

  Pakhira, Malay K ^a   Dutta, Amrita ^b  

^a KALYANI GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b MCKV INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster number detection; VAT; VGA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; DATA SETS; INDEX VALUES; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; VALIDITY INDEX; VAT; VGA; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

EID: 84857483268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ReTIS.2011.6146875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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