A partitive rough clustering algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Georg Peters;Martin Lampart

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science/Mathematics, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science/Mathematics, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • RSCTC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Since rough sets were introduced by Pawlak about 25 years ago they have become a central part of soft computing. Recently Lingras presented a rough k-means clustering algorithm which assigns the data objects to lower and upper approximations of clusters. In our paper we introduce a rough k-medoids clustering algorithm and apply it to four different data sets (synthetic, colon cancer, forest and control chart data). We compare the results of these experiments to Lingras rough k-means and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the rough k-medoids.