Title
Improving the Clustering Search heuristic: An application to cartographic labeling.
Abstract
The use of hybrid metaheuristics is a good approach to improve the quality and efficiency of metaheuristics. This paper presents a hybrid method based on Clustering Search (CS). CS seeks to combine metaheuristics and heuristics for local search, intensifying the search on regions of the search space which are considered promising. We propose a more efficient way to detect promising regions, based on the clustering techniques of Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN), Label-propagation (LP), and Natural Group Identification (NGI) algorithms. This proposal is called Density Clustering Search (DCS). To analyze this new approach, we propose to solve a combinatorial optimization problem with many practical applications, the Point Feature Cartographic Label Placement (PFCLP). The PFCLP attempts to locate identifiers (labels) of regions on a map without damaging legibility. The computational tests used instances taken from the literature. The results were satisfactory for clusters made with LP and NGI, presenting better results than the classic CS, which indicates these methods are a good alternative for the improvement of this method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.asoc.2018.11.003
Applied Soft Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Heuristics,Promising regions,Clustering,Labels
Heuristic,Identifier,Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Local search (optimization),Cluster analysis,Mathematics,DBSCAN,Machine learning,Metaheuristic,Cartographic labeling
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
77
1568-4946
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eliseu Junio Araújo100.34
Antonio Augusto Chaves211610.24
Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena349836.72