• DocumentCode
    1661494
  • Title

    A modification to improve possibilistic fuzzy cluster analysis

  • Author

    Timm, Heiko ; Kruse, Rudolf

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Knowledge Process. & Language Eng., Otto-von-Guericke-Univ., Magdeburg, Germany
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1460
  • Lastpage
    1465
  • Abstract
    We explore an approach to possibilistic fuzzy clustering that avoids a severe drawback of the conventional approach, namely that the objective function is truly minimized only if all cluster centers are identical. Our approach is based on the idea that this undesired property can be avoided if we introduce a mutual repulsion of the clusters, so that they are forced away from each other. We develop this approach for the possibilistic fuzzy c-means algorithm and the Gustafson-Kessel algorithm
  • Keywords
    fuzzy set theory; minimisation; pattern clustering; possibility theory; mutual repulsion; objective function minimization; possibilistic fuzzy cluster analysis; Clustering algorithms; Covariance matrix; Euclidean distance; Fuzzy sets; Humans; Knowledge engineering; Prototypes; Zinc;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Systems, 2002. FUZZ-IEEE'02. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7280-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUZZ.2002.1006721
  • Filename
    1006721