Web document clustering based on Global-Best Harmony Search, K-means, Frequent Term Sets and Bayesian Information Criterion

This paper introduces a new description-centric algorithm for web document clustering based on the hybridization of the Global-Best Harmony Search with the K-means algorithm, Frequent Term Sets and Bayesian Information Criterion. The new algorithm defines the number of clusters automatically. The Global-Best Harmony Search provides a global strategy for a search in the solution space, based on the Harmony Search and the concept of swarm intelligence. The K-means algorithm is used to find the optimum value in a local search space. Bayesian Information Criterion is used as a fitness function, while FP-Growth is used to reduce the high dimensionality in the vocabulary. This resulting algorithm, called IGBHSK, was tested with data sets based on Reuters-21578 and DMOZ, obtaining promising results (better precision results than a Singular Value Decomposition algorithm). Also, it was also then evaluated by a group of users.