Title
Fast Unsupervised Clustering with Artificial Ants
Abstract
AntClust is a clustering algorithm that is inspired by the chemical recognition system of real ants. It associates the genome of each artificial ant to an object of the initial data set and simulates meetings between ants to create nests of individuals that share a similar genome. Thus, the nests realize a partition of the original data set with no hypothesis concerning the output clusters (number, shape, size...) and with minimum input parameters. Due to an internal mechanism of nest selection and finalization, AntClust runs in the worst case in quadratic time complexity with the number of ants. In this paper, we evaluate new heuristics for nest selection and finalization that allows AntClust to run on linear time complexity with the number of ants.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-30217-9_115
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
linear time,time complexity
Recognition system,Computer science,Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Finalization,Cluster analysis,Time complexity,Nest,Partition (number theory),Artificial Ants
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3242
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Labroche113917.87
Christiane Guinot29515.88
Gilles Venturini366082.45