A study on educational data clustering approach based on improved particle swarm optimizer

More and more clustering approaches are used in educational data mining for too many data are generated by web-based educational systems. To deal with the problem of premature convergence of the traditional K-means algorithm and computational costs, an improved K-means clustering algorithm based cooperative PSO frame is proposed in this paper. Cooperative PSO has been proved effective for large scale and complex problems via a divide-and-conquer strategy by simulating coevolutionary techniques in nature. Therefore, K-means clustering algorithm based cooperative PSO frame is effective in educational data clustering.