Means-ends analysis is a seemingly well understood search technique, which can be described, using planning terminology, as: keep adding actions that are feasible and achieve pieces of the goal. Unfortunately, it is often the case that no action is both feasible and relevant in this sense. The traditional answer is to make sabgoals out of the preconditions of relevant but infeasible actions. Th...

The issue of determining “the right number of clusters” in K-Means has attracted considerable interest, especially in the recent years. Cluster overlap appears to be a factor most affecting the clustering results. This paper proposes an experimental setting for comparison of different approaches at data generated from Gaussian clusters with the controlled parameters of betweenand within-cluster...

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This paper presents a generalized version of the conventional k-means clustering algorithm [Proceedings of 5th Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967, p. 281]. Not only is this new one applicable to ellipse-shaped data clusters without dead-unit problem, but also performs correct clustering without pre-assigning the exact...

In this paper, the well-known k-means algorithm for searching for a locally 12 optimal partition of the setA ⊂ R is analyzed in the case if some data points occur on the 13 border of two or more clusters. For this special case, a useful strategy by implementation 14 of the k-means algorithm is proposed. 15

Abstract. An application of cluster analysis to identify topics in a collection of posters abstracts from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting in 2006 is presented. The topics were identified by selecting from the abstracts belonging to each cluster the terms with the highest scores using different ranking schemes. The ranking scheme based on logentropy showed better performance in...

A novel method of performing multiscale segmentation of radar reflectivity data using statistical properties within the radar data itself is introduced. The method utilizes a K-Means clustering of texture vectors computed within the

The most widely used partitioning method in cluster analysis is the k-means clustering which minimizes within-cluster sum of squares. However, the k-means clustering is sensitive to outliers or cluster structures. We introduce the k-spatial medians clustering which is less sensitive to outliers as an alternative to the k-means clustering and compare two clustering methods for some arti cial dat...