• DocumentCode
    3031176
  • Title

    A Cluster By Any Other Name

  • Author

    Keller, J.M. ; Sledge, I.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Missouri Columbia, Columbia
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    24-27 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    427
  • Lastpage
    432
  • Abstract
    What´s in a name? Over the last several years, Lotfi Zadeh has been using the definition of a cluster as an example of a very common fuzzy term that we humans use without a real definition. This paper represents an attempt to construct a degree of clusterness for a given set of points. We introduce two approaches, one based on the Possibilistic C-Means and the other on a Visual Assessment of Cluster Tendency. We compare the measures on several synthetic data sets and discuss the results.
  • Keywords
    fuzzy set theory; pattern clustering; cluster tendency; possibilistic c-means; visual assessment; Clustering algorithms; Displays; Fuzzy sets; Humans; Iterative algorithms; Partitioning algorithms; Phase change materials; Pressing; Shape;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2007. NAFIPS '07. Annual Meeting of the North American
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1213-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-1214-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NAFIPS.2007.383877
  • Filename
    4271100