A weight-incorporated similarity-based clustering ensemble method

Clustering analysis is an important tool of data mining. The study on efficient clustering has great significance, especially in improving a clustering algorithm´s adaptability and usefulness. Clustering ensemble (CE) integrates several clustering algorithms such that the clustering results can be effectively improved. This work investigates similarity-based methods and proposes a new method called weight- incorporated similarity-based clustering ensemble (WSCE). Six classic data sets are used to test single clustering algorithms, similarity-based one, and the proposed one via simulation. The results prove the validity and performance advantage of the proposed method.