Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

Data analysis plays an indispensable role for understanding various phenomena. Cluster analysis, primitive exploration with little or no prior knowledge, consists of research developed across a wide variety of communities. The diversity, on one hand, equips us with many tools. On the other hand, the profusion of options causes confusion. We survey clustering algorithms for data sets appearing in statistics, computer science, and machine learning, and illustrate their applications in some benchmark data sets, the traveling salesman problem, and bioinformatics, a new field attracting intensive efforts. Several tightly related topics, proximity measure, and cluster validation, are also discussed.

Keywords:  
Data analysis
cluster analysis
primitive exploration
clustering algorithm
benchmark dataset
proximity measure
cluster validation

Author(s) Name:  Rui Xu; D. Wunsch

Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/TNN.2005.845141

Volume Information:  Volume: 16, Issue: 3, May 2005

Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1427769