A MATLAB Toolbox and its Web based Variant for Fuzzy Cluster Analysis

Nowadays due to the yearly multiplying data comes always the need for useful methods, algorithms, that make the processing of these data easier. For the solution of this problem data mining tools come into existence, to which clustering algorithms belong. The purpose of this paper is to propose a continuously extensible, standard tool, which is useful for any MATLAB user for one’s aim. The toolbox contains crisp and fuzzy clustering algorithms, validity indexes and linear and nonlinear visualization methods for high-dimensional data. The web-based prototype version of the toolbox already has been developed. It means that users do not need to have MATLAB software and programming knowledge, but only a web browser and they can load their own data into the web server and download the results because the program codes run on Matlab Web Server with a developed data mining portal, which is found in the following url: www.pe.vein.hu/datamine. The portal is in test phase, with limited services. The Fuzzy Clustering and Data Analysis Toolbox with User’s Guide is available at www.mathworks.com/fileexchange.