Title
Correlating Fuzzy and Rough Clustering
Abstract
With the gaining popularity of rough clustering, soft computing research community is studying relationships between rough and fuzzy clustering as well as their relative advantages. Both rough and fuzzy clustering are less restrictive than conventional clustering. Fuzzy clustering memberships are more descriptive than rough clustering. In some cases, descriptive fuzzy clustering may be advantageous, while in other cases it may lead to information overload. Many applications demand use of combined approach to exploit inherent strengths of each technique. Our objective is to examine correlation between these two techniques. This paper provides an experimental description of how rough clustering results can be correlated with fuzzy clustering results. We illustrate procedural steps to map fuzzy membership clustering to rough clustering. However, such a conversion is not always necessary, especially if one only needs lower and upper approximations. Experiments also show that descriptive fuzzy clustering may not always (particularly for high dimensional objects) produce results that are as accurate as direct application of rough clustering. We present analysis of the results from both the techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3233/FI-2012-652
Fundam. Inform.
Keywords
Field
DocType
fuzzy membership,rough clustering result,fuzzy clustering,descriptive fuzzy clustering,conventional clustering,applications demand use,combined approach,fuzzy clustering membership,rough clustering,correlating fuzzy,fuzzy clustering result
Data mining,Fuzzy clustering,CURE data clustering algorithm,Computer science,FLAME clustering,Artificial intelligence,Conceptual clustering,Cluster analysis,Canopy clustering algorithm,Clustering high-dimensional data,Pattern recognition,Correlation clustering,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
115
2-3
0169-2968
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.65
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manish Joshi15612.86
Pawan Lingras21408143.21
C. Raghavendra Rao36513.66