Title : 
Optimization of the Interval Type-2 Fuzzy C-Means using Particle Swarm Optimization
         
        
            Author : 
Rubio, E. ; Castillo, Oscar
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Div. of Grad. studies & Res., Tijuana Inst. of Technol., Tijuana, Mexico
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents the implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization for the optimization of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy C-Means algorithm, this in order to automatically find the optimal number of clusters c and the interval of fuzzification or weight exponent [m1, m2], using as objective function for optimization algorithm an index cluster validation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fuzzy set theory; particle swarm optimisation; pattern clustering; index cluster validation; interval type-2 fuzzy c-means algorithm; particle swarm optimization; weight exponent; Equations; Mathematical model; Cluster Validation; Interval Type-2 Fuzzy C-Means; Particle Swarm Optimization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), 2013 World Congress on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Fargo, ND
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-1414-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/NaBIC.2013.6617847