A multi-agent based approach to clustering: harnessing the power of agents

  • Authors:
  • Santhana Chaimontree;Katie Atkinson;Frans Coenen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

  • Venue:
  • ADMI'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A framework for multi-agent based clustering is described whereby individual agents represent individual clusters. A particular feature of the framework is that, after an initial cluster configuration has been generated, the agents are able to negotiate with a view to improving on this initial clustering. The framework can be used in the context of a number of clustering paradigms, two are investigated: K-means and KNN. The reported evaluation demonstrates that negotiation can serve to improve on an initial cluster configuration.