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Data mining focuses on discovering interesting, non-trivial and meaningful information from large datasets. Data clustering is one of the unsupervised and descriptive data mining task which group data based on similarity features and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Pitawelayalage Dasun Dileepa Pitawela , Gamage Upeksha Ganegoda

Clustering is a fundamental task in data science with wide-ranging applications. In $k$-medoids clustering, cluster centers must be actual datapoints and arbitrary distance metrics may be used; these features allow for greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mo Tiwari , Ryan Kang , Donghyun Lee , Sebastian Thrun , Chris Piech , Ilan Shomorony , Martin Jinye Zhang

Clustering ensemble has been a popular research topic in data science due to its ability to improve the robustness of the single clustering method. Many clustering ensemble methods have been proposed, most of which can be categorized into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Feijiang Li , Jieting Wang , Liuya zhang , Yuhua Qian , Shuai jin , Tao Yan , Liang Du

Increasing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are applied to solving the real-world optimization problems, as they have some advantages over the classical methods of numerical optimization. This paper has proposed a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bing Zeng , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li

This work presents a novel variant of the Firefly Algorithm (FA) for data clustering, addressing limitations of traditional methods like K-Means that struggle with non-uniform cluster shapes, densities, and the need for pre-defining the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 MKA Ariyaratne , Azwirman Gusrialdi , Yury Nikulin , Jaakko Peltonen

This paper proposes a novel k-medoids approximation algorithm to handle large-scale datasets with reasonable computational time and memory complexity. We develop a local-search algorithm that iteratively improves the medoid selection based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Antoine de Mathelin , Nicolas Enrique Cecchi , François Deheeger , Mathilde Mougeot , Nicolas Vayatis

Purpose: The development of metaheuristic algorithms has increased by researchers to use them extensively in the field of business, science, and engineering. One of the common metaheuristic optimization algorithms is called Grey Wolf…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hardi M. Mohammed , Zrar Kh. Abdul , Tarik A. Rashid , Abeer Alsadoon , Nebojsa Bacanin

In addition to finding meaningful clusters, centroid-based clustering algorithms such as K-means or mean-shift should ideally find centroids that are valid patterns in the input space, representative of data in their cluster. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Weiran Wang , Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

Privacy is important when dealing with sensitive personal information in machine learning models, which require large data sets for training. In the energy field, access to household prosumer energy data is crucial for energy predictions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Viorica Chifu , Tudor Cioara , Cristian Anitiei , Cristina Pop , Ionut Anghel

Classification accuracy provided by a machine learning model depends a lot on the feature set used in the learning process. Feature Selection (FS) is an important and challenging pre-processing technique which helps to identify only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ritam Guha , Manosij Ghosh , Shyok Mutsuddi , Ram Sarkar , Seyedali Mirjalili

K-means Clustering is the most well-known partitioning algorithm among all clustering, by which we can partition the data objects very easily in to more than one clusters. However, for K-means to choose an appropriate number of clusters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Afroj Alam

In this study, we propose using an over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme for the federated k-means clustering algorithm to reduce the per-round communication latency when it is implemented over a wireless network. The OAC scheme relies on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Alphan Sahin

This paper presents the Goat Optimization Algorithm (GOA), a novel bio-inspired metaheuristic optimization technique inspired by goats' adaptive foraging, strategic movement, and parasite avoidance behaviors.GOA is designed to balance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hamed Nozari , Hoessein Abdi , Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz

In this paper, a new swarm intelligence algorithm based on orca behaviors is proposed for problem solving. The algorithm called artificial orca algorithm (AOA) consists of simulating the orca lifestyle and in particular the social…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Habiba Drias , Lydia Sonia Bendimerad , Yassine Drias

We employ unsupervised machine learning to enhance the accuracy of our recently presented scaling method for wave confinement analysis [1]. We employ the standard k-means++ algorithm as well as our own model-based algorithm. We investigate…

With the rapid development in mobile network effective network planning tool is needed to satisfy the need of customers. However, deciding upon the optimum placement for the base stations (BS) to achieve best services while reducing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Lamiaa Fattouh Ibrahim , Manal El Harby

Agents of any metaheuristic algorithms are moving in two modes, namely exploration and exploitation. Obtaining robust results in any algorithm is strongly dependent on how to balance between these two modes. Whale optimization algorithm as…

Clustering analysis has received considerable attention in spatial data mining for several years. With the rapid development of the geospatial information technologies, the size of spatial information data is growing exponentially which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Xia Yue , Wang Man , Jun Yue , Guangcao Liu

This paper studies clustering of data sequences using the k-medoids algorithm. All the data sequences are assumed to be generated from \emph{unknown} continuous distributions, which form clusters with each cluster containing a composite set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Tiexing Wang , Qunwei Li , Donald J. Bucci , Yingbin Liang , Biao Chen , Pramod K. Varshney

One of the most important surgical factors is Depth of Anesthesia (DOA) control in patients. The main problem is to overcome the uncertainty and nonlinearity of the system, due to different physiological parameters of the patient's body and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Amin Behboudifar , Chen Jing