Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been employed on several optimization problems, including the clustering problem. PSO has also been employed in the clustering of data of different structure and dimensionality. In this paper it is employed in the clustering of nucleic acid sequences. The application of clustering, as a statistical tool, in the analysis of data of varied complexity has been...

In order to overcome the shortcomings of traditional clustering algorithms such as local optima and sensitivity to initialization, a new Optimization technique, Particle Swarm Optimization is used in association with Unsupervised Clustering techniques in this paper. This new algorithm uses the capacity of global search in PSO algorithm and solves the problems associated with traditional cluster...

In this paper we have investigated the performance of PSO Particle Swarm Optimization based clustering on few real world data sets and one artificial data set. The performances are measured by two metric namely quantization error and inter-cluster distance. The K means clustering algorithm is first implemented for all data sets, the results of which form the basis of comparison of PSO based app...

This paper proposes two new approaches to using PSO to cluster data. It is shown how PSO can he used to find the centroids of a user specified number of clusters. The algorithm is then extended to use K-means clustering to seed the initial swarm. This second alga. rithm basically uses PSO to refine the clusters formed by K-means. The new PSO algorithms are evaluated on six data sets, and compar...

-Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is undoubtedly one of the most widely used swarm intelligence algorithm. Generally, each particle is assigned an initial value randomly. In this paper an improved PSO clustering algorithm based on affinity propagation (APPSO) is proposed which provides new ideas and methods for cluster analysis. Firstly the proposed algorithm get initial cluster centers by aff...

Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases that cause a large number of deaths. Early detection and analysis can be very helpful for successful treatment. Image segmentation plays a key role in the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer. K-means algorithm and classic PSO clustering are the most common methods for segmentation that have poor outputs. In t...

Clustering is the process of organizing similar objects into groups, with its main objective of organizing a collection of data items into some meaningful groups. The problem of Clustering has been approached from different disciplines during the last few year's. Many algorithms have been developed in recent years for solving problems of numerical and combinatorial optimization problems. M...

Data clustering is a powerful technique for discerning the structure of and simplifying the complexity of large scale data. An improved technique combining chaotic map particle swarm optimization (CPSO) with an acceleration strategy, is proposed in this paper. Accelerated chaotic particle swarm optimization (ACPSO) searches for cluster centers of an arbitrary data set and can effectively find t...

This paper presents the local best model of PSO for partition-based clustering. The proposed model gets rid off the drawbacks of gbest PSO for clustering. The model uses a pre-specified number of clusters K. The LPOSC has K neighborhoods. Each neighborhood represents one of the clusters. The goal of the particles in each neighborhood is optimizing the position of the centroid of the cluster. Th...

In this paper, well-known PSO algorithms reported in the literature for solving continuous function optimization problems were comparatively evaluated by considering real world data clustering problems. Data clustering problems are solved, by considering three performance clustering metrics such as TRace Within criteria (TRW), Variance Ratio Criteria (VRC) and Marriott Criteria (MC). The result...