Modified adaptive resonance theory network for mixed data based on distance hierarchy

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Chian Hsu;Yan-Ping Huang;Chieh-Ming Hsiao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C

  • Venue:
  • ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Clustering of data is a fundamental data analysis step that has been widely studied across in data mining. Adaptive resonance theory network (ART) is an important algorithm in Clustering. ART is also very popular in the unsupervised neural network. Type I adaptive resonance theory network (ART1) deals with the binary numerical data, whereas type II adaptive resonance theory network (ART2) deals with the general numerical data. Several information systems collect the mixing type attitudes, which included numeric attributes and categorical attributes. However, ART1 and ART2 do not deal with mixed data. If the categorical data attributes are transferred to the binary data format, the binary data do not reflect the similar degree. It influences the clustering quality. Therefore, this paper proposes a modified adaptive resonance theory network (M-ART) and the conceptual hierarchy tree to solve similar degrees of mixed data. This paper utilizes artificial simulation materials and collects a piece of actual data about the family income to do experiments. The results show that the M-ART algorithm can process the mixed data and has a great effect on clustering.