Belief Functions and Cluster Ensembles

  • Authors:
  • Marie-Hélène Masson;Thierry Denoeux

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Picardie Jules Verne, IUT de l'Oise,;Laboratoire Heudiasyc, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne, France 60205

  • Venue:
  • ECSQARU '09 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, belief functions, defined on the lattice of partitions of a set of objects, are investigated as a suitable framework for combining multiple clusterings. We first show how to represent clustering results as masses of evidence allocated to partitions. Then a consensus belief function is obtained using a suitable combination rule. Tools for synthesizing the results are also proposed. The approach is illustrated using two data sets.