Facility location and clustering algorithms constitute a critical area of research that bridges optimisation theory and data analysis. Facility location techniques focus on the strategic placement of ...

Entropy Minimization is a new clustering algorithm that works with both categorical and numeric data, and scales well to extremely large data sets. Data clustering is the process of placing data items ...

Multivariate analysis in statistics is a set of useful methods for analyzing data when there are more than one variables under consideration. Multivariate analysis techniques may be used for several ...

Data clustering is the process of placing data items into groups so that items within a group are similar and items in different groups are dissimilar. The most common technique for clustering numeric ...

Statistica Sinica, Vol. 12, No. 1, A Special Issue on Bioinformatics (January 2002), pp. 241-262 (22 pages) Many clustering algorithms have been used to analyze microarray gene expression data. Given ...

Clustering algorithms are used to generate clusters of elements having similar characteristics. Among the different groups of clustering algorithms, agglomerative algorithm is widely used in the ...