Genetic Algorithm with an Improved Initial Population Technique for Automatic Clustering of Low-Dimensional Data

K-means clustering is an important and popular technique in data mining. Unfortunately, for any given dataset (not knowledge-base), it is very difficult for a user to estimate the proper number of clusters in advance, and it also has the tendency of trapping in local optimum when the initial seeds a...

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Main Authors: Xiangbing Zhou, Fang Miao, Hongjiang Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
Series:Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/4/101