Agent-Based Non-distributed and Distributed Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Ireneusz Czarnowski;Piotr Jedrzejowicz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Systems, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland 81-225;Department of Information Systems, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland 81-225

  • Venue:
  • MLDM '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The paper deals with the non-distributed and distributed clustering and proposes an agent-based approach to solving the clustering problem instances. The approach is an implementation of the specialized A-Team architecture called JABAT. The paper includes an overview of JABAT and the description of the agent-based algorithms solving the non-distributed and distributed clustering problems. To evaluate the approach the computational experiment involving several well known benchmark instances has been carried out. The results obtained by JABAT-based algorithms are compared with the results produced by the non-distributed and distributed k -means algorithm. It has been shown that the proposed approach produces, as a rule, better results and has the advantage of being scalable, mobile and parallel.