1. Edition - November 2008
109.- Euro
2008. 368 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-27680-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-27680-8 - John Wiley & Sons






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Written by two of the best-known experts in the field, Clustering is the only thoroughly comprehensive text on the subject currently available. The book looks at the full range of clustering and provides enough detail to allow users to select the method that best fits their application. A generous use of examples and references make the subject matter clear for readers of different levels, including graduate students, computer scientists, and applied mathematicians.

From the contents
PREFACE.

1. CLUSTER ANALYSIS.

1.1. Classifi cation and Clustering.

1.2. Defi nition of Clusters.

1.3. Clustering Applications.

1.4. Literature of Clustering Algorithms.

1.5. Outline of the Book.

2. PROXIMITY MEASURES.

2.1. Introduction.

2.2. Feature Types and Measurement Levels.

2.3. Defi nition of Proximity Measures.

2.4. Proximity Measures for Continuous Variables.

2.5. Proximity Measures for Discrete Variables.

2.6. Proximity Measures for Mixed Variables.

2.7. Summary.

3. HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING.

3.1. Introduction.

3.2. Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering.

3.3. Divisive Hierarchical Clustering.

3.4. Recent Advances.

3.5. Applications.

3.6. Summary.

4. PARTITIONAL CLUSTERING.

4.1. Introduction.

4.2. Clustering Criteria.

4.3. K-Means Algorithm.

4.4. Mixture Density-Based Clustering.

4.5. Graph Theory-Based Clustering.

4.6. Fuzzy Clustering.

4.7. Search Techniques-Based Clustering Algorithms.

4.8. Applications.

4.9. Summary.

5. NEURAL NETWORK-BASED CLUSTERING.

5.1. Introduction.

5.2. Hard Competitive Learning Clustering.

5.3. Soft Competitive Learning Clustering.

5.4. Applications.

5.5. Summary.

6. KERNEL-BASED CLUSTERING.

6.1. Introduction.

6.2. Kernel Principal Component Analysis.

6.3. Squared-Error-Based Clustering with Kernel Functions.

6.4. Support Vector Clustering.

6.5. Applications.

6.6. Summary.

7. SEQUENTIAL DATA CLUSTERING.

7.1. Introduction.

7.2. Sequence Similarity.

7.3. Indirect Sequence Clustering.

7.4. Model-Based Sequence Clustering.

7.5. Applications--Genomic and Biological Sequence.

7.6. Summary.

8. LARGE-SCALE DATA CLUSTERING.

8.1. Introduction.

8.2. Random Sampling Methods.

8.3. Condensation-Based Methods.

8.4. Density-Based Methods.

8.5. Grid-Based Methods.

8.6. Divide and Conquer.

8.7. Incremental Clustering.

8.8. Applications.

8.9. Summary.

9. DATA VISUALIZATION AND HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA CLUSTERING.

9.1. Introduction.

9.2. Linear Projection Algorithms.

9.3. Nonlinear Projection Algorithms.

9.4. Projected and Subspace Clustering.

9.5. Applications.

9.6. Summary.

10. CLUSTER VALIDITY.

10.1. Introduction.

10.2. External Criteria.

10.3. Internal Criteria.

10.4. Relative Criteria.

10.5. Summary.

11. CONCLUDING REMARKS.

PROBLEMS.

REFERENCES.

AUTHOR INDEX.

SUBJECT INDEX.