Abstract
Clustering on non-metric data sets often occurs in investigations in medicine and social science. The problem is to find suitable measures which describe similaries and, hence, are applicable to the clustering algorithms. In the present contribution we use evolutionary algorithms EA for clustering. Thereyby, the similarity measures determine the respective fitness function for the EA. We consider several fitness functions and derive a new one which allows, additionally, the determination of a useful cluster number. — For the EA we use a new selection starateguy and a multiple subpopulation approach with a migration scheme following the collective learning dynamic in self-organizing maps.
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Villmann, T., Albani, C. (2001). Clustering of Categoric Data in Medicine — Application of Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Reusch, B. (eds) Computational Intelligence. Theory and Applications. Fuzzy Days 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45493-4_62
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