NDLI: A New Cluster Validity Index Based on Fuzzy Granulation-degranulation Criteria

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Saha, S. Bandyopadhyay, S.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Indian Stat. Inst., Kolkata (Saha, S.; Bandyopadhyay, S.)
Abstract	Identification of correct number of clusters and the corresponding partitioning are two important considerations in clustering. In this paper, a new fuzzy quantization-dequantization criterion is used to propose a cluster validity index named fuzzy vector quantization based validity index, FVQ index. This index identifies how well the formed cluster centers represent that particular data set. In general, most of the existing validity indices try to optimize the total variance of the partitioning which is a measure of compactness of the clusters so formed. Here a new kind of error function which reflects how well the formed cluster centers represent the whole data set is used as the goodness of the obtained partitioning. This error function is monotonically decreasing with increase in the number of clusters. Minimum separation between two cluster centers is used here to normalize the error function. The well-known genetic algorithm based K-means clustering algorithm (GAK-means) is used as the underlying partitioning technique. The number of clusters is varied from 2 to radicN where N is the total number of data points present in the data set and the values of the proposed validity index is noted down. The minimum value of the FVQ index over these radicN-1 partitions corresponds to the appropriate partitioning and the number of partitions as indicated by the validity index. Results on five artificially generated and three real-life data sets show the effectiveness of the proposed validity index. For the purpose of comparison the cluster number identified by a well-known cluster validity index, XB-index, for the above mentioned eight data sets are also reported.
Starting Page	353
Ending Page	358
File Size	310230
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769530591
DOI	10.1109/ADCOM.2007.19
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-12-18
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Vector quantization Clustering methods Clustering algorithms Scattering Partitioning algorithms Decoding Virtual manufacturing Books Machine intelligence Genetic algorithms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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