Introduction to statistical pattern recognition (2nd ed.)
Introduction to statistical pattern recognition (2nd ed.)
Social information filtering: algorithms for automating “word of mouth”
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
BIRCH: an efficient data clustering method for very large databases
SIGMOD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Automatic subspace clustering of high dimensional data for data mining applications
SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Fast algorithms for projected clustering
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Entropy-based subspace clustering for mining numerical data
KDD '99 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Finding generalized projected clusters in high dimensional spaces
SIGMOD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Clustering by pattern similarity in large data sets
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Biclustering of Expression Data
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Semantic Compression and Pattern Extraction with Fascicles
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
d-Clusters: Capturing Subspace Correlation in a Large Data Set
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
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The task of clustering is to identify classes of similar objects among a set of objects. The definition of similarity varies from one clustering model to another. However, in most of these models the concept of similarity is often based on such metrics as Manhattan distance, Euclidean distance or other Lp distances. In other words, similar objects must have close values in at least a set of dimensions. In this paper, we explore a more general type of similarity. Under the pCluster model we proposed, two objects are similar if they exhibit a coherent pattern on a subset of dimensions. The new similarity concept models a wide range of applications. For instance, in DNA microarray analysis, the expression levels of two genes may rise and fall synchronously in response to a set of environmental stimuli. Although the magnitude of their expression levels may not be close, the patterns they exhibit can be very much alike. Discovery of such clusters of genes is essential in revealing significant connections in gene regulatory networks. E-commerce applications, such as collaborative filtering, can also benefit from the new model, because it is able to capture not only the closeness of values of certain leading indicators but also tile closeness of (purchasing, browsing, etc.) patterns exhibited by the customers. In addition to the novel similarity model, this paper also introduces an effective and efficient algorithm to detect such clusters, and we perform tests on several real and synthetic data sets to show its performance.