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Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is a nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, which was proposed by Mirjalili and Lewis in 2016. This algorithm has shown its ability to solve many problems. Comprehensive surveys have been…
Clustering non-Euclidean data is difficult, and one of the most used algorithms besides hierarchical clustering is the popular algorithm Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM), also simply referred to as k-medoids. In Euclidean geometry the…
Clustering non-Euclidean data is difficult, and one of the most used algorithms besides hierarchical clustering is the popular algorithm Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM), also simply referred to as k-medoids clustering. In Euclidean…
Recently the engineering optimization problems require large computational demands and long solution time even on high multi-processors computational devices. In this paper, an OpenMP inspired parallel version of the whale optimization…
k-medoids algorithm is a partitional, centroid-based clustering algorithm which uses pairwise distances of data points and tries to directly decompose the dataset with $n$ points into a set of $k$ disjoint clusters. However, k-medoids…
The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) has shown strong optimization ability but still suffers from premature convergence and weak search diversity. To address these issues, this paper proposes an enhanced WOA variant called CICDWOA. The…
Clustering is a ubiquitous task in data science. Compared to the commonly used $k$-means clustering, $k$-medoids clustering requires the cluster centers to be actual data points and support arbitrary distance metrics, which permits greater…
Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM, k-Medoids) is a popular clustering technique to use with arbitrary distance functions or similarities, where each cluster is represented by its most central object, called the medoid or the discrete median.…
Task scheduling is a critical research challenge in cloud computing, a transformative technology widely adopted across industries. Although numerous scheduling solutions exist, they predominantly optimize singular or limited metrics such as…
Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) suffers from limited global search ability, slow convergence, and tendency to fall into local optima, restricting its effectiveness in hyperparameter optimization for machine learning models. To address…
Hierarchical and k-medoids clustering are deterministic clustering algorithms based on pairwise distances. Using these same pairwise distances, we propose a novel stochastic clustering method based on random partition distributions. We call…
In order to explore the possibility of cross-fertilization between quantum computing and neural networks as well as to improve the classification performance of quantum neural networks, this paper proposes an improved Variable Split Shadow…
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of many individual sensors that are deployed in the area of interest. These sensor nodes have major energy constraints as they are small and their battery can't be replaced. They collaborate together…
K-Medoids(KM) is a standard clustering method, used extensively on semi-metric data.Error analyses of KM have traditionally used an in-sample notion of error,which can be far from the true error and suffer from generalization gap. We…
It is essential that all algorithms are exhaustively, somewhat, and intelligently evaluated. Nonetheless, evaluating the effectiveness of optimization algorithms equitably and fairly is not an easy process for various reasons. Choosing and…
The present survey provides the state-of-the-art of research, copiously devoted to Evolutionary Approach (EAs) for clustering exemplified with a diversity of evolutionary computations. The Survey provides a nomenclature that highlights some…
This paper is concerned with data clustering to separate clusters based on the connectivity principle for categorizing similar and dissimilar data into different groups. Although classical clustering algorithms such as K-means are efficient…
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are essential for monitoring and communication in complex environments, where coverage optimization directly affects performance and energy efficiency. However, traditional algorithms such as the Whale…
A recent metaheuristic algorithm, such as Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), was proposed. The idea of proposing this algorithm belongs to the hunting behavior of the humpback whale. However, WOA suffers from poor performance in the…
Most real-world optimization problems often come with multiple global optima or local optima. Therefore, increasing niching metaheuristic algorithms, which devote to finding multiple optima in a single run, are developed to solve these…