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Modern day computers cannot provide optimal solution to the clustering problem. There are many clustering algorithms that attempt to provide an approximation of the optimal solution. These clustering techniques can be broadly classified into two categories. The techniques from first category directly assign objects to clusters and then analyze the resulting clusters. The methods from second category adjust representations of clusters and then determine the object assignments. In terms of disciplines, these techniques can be classified as statistical, genetic algorithms based, and neural network based. This paper reports the results of experiments comparing five different approaches: hierarchical grouping, object-based genetic algorithms, cluster-based genetic algorithms, Kohonen neural networks, and K-means method. The comparisons consist of the time requirements and within-group errors. The theoretical analyses were tested for clustering of highway sections and supermarket customers. All the techniques were applied to clustering of highway sections. The hierarchical grouping and genetic algorithms approaches were computationally infeasible for clustering a larger set of supermarket customers. Hence only Kohonen neural networks and K-means techniques were applied to the second set to confirm some of the results from previous experiments.
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Lingras, P., Huang, X. Statistical, Evolutionary, and Neurocomputing Clustering Techniques: Cluster-Based vs Object-Based Approaches. Artif Intell Rev 23, 3–29 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-004-2901-4
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