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In this paper, we introduce a novel interactive framework to handle both instance-level and temporal smoothness constraints for clustering large temporal data. It consists of a constrained clustering algorithm, called CVQE+, which optimizes the clustering quality, constraint violation and the historical cost between consecutive data snapshots. At the center of our framework is a simple yet effective active learning technique, named Border, for iteratively selecting the most informative pairs of objects to query users about, and updating the clustering with new constraints. Those constraints are then propagated inside each data snapshot and between snapshots via two schemes, called constraint inheritance and constraint propagation, to further enhance the results. Experiments show better or comparable clustering results than state-of-the-art techniques as well as high scalability for large datasets.
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Mai, S.T., Amer-Yahia, S., Chouakria, A.D., Nguyen, K.T., Nguyen, AD. (2018). Scalable Active Constrained Clustering for Temporal Data. In: Pei, J., Manolopoulos, Y., Sadiq, S., Li, J. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10827. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91452-7_37
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