An artificial bee colony approach for clustering

作者:Zhang, Changsheng*; Ouyang, Dantong; Ning, Jiaxu
来源:Expert Systems with Applications, 2010, 37(7): 4761-4767.
DOI:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.11.003

摘要

Clustering is a popular data analysis and data mining technique. In this paper, an artificial bee colony clustering algorithm is presented to optimally partition N objects into K clusters. The Deb's rules are used to direct the search direction of each candidate. This algorithm has been tested on several well-known real datasets and compared with other popular heuristics algorithm in clustering, such as GA, SA, TS, ACO and the recently proposed K-NM-PSO algorithm. The computational simulations reveal very encouraging results in terms of the quality of solution and the processing time required.