Size Constrained Distance Clustering: Separation Properties and Some Complexity Results

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Bertoni;Massimiliano Goldwurm;Jianyi Lin;Francesco Saccà/

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milan, Italy. {bertoni,goldwurm}@dsi.unimi.it/ {jianyi.lin,francesco.sacca}@unimi.it;Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milan, Italy. {bertoni,goldwurm}@dsi.unimi.it/ {jianyi.lin,francesco.sacca}@unimi.it;(Correspd.) (Also works: Department of Mathematics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy) Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milan, Italy. {bertoni,goldwur ...;Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milan, Italy. {bertoni,goldwurm}@dsi.unimi.it/ {jianyi.lin,francesco.sacca}@unimi.it

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae - From Physics to Computer Science: to Gianpiero Cattaneo for his 70th birthday
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we study the complexity of some size constrained clustering problems with norm Lp. We obtain the following results: (i) A separation property for the constrained 2-clustering problem. This implies that the optimal solutions in the 1-dimensional case verify the so-called “String Property”; (ii) The NP-hardness of the constrained 2-clustering problem for every norm Lp (p 1); (iii) A polynomial time algorithm for the constrained 2-clustering problem in dimension 1 for every norm Lp with integer p. We also give evidence that this result cannot be extended to norm Lp with rational non-integer p; (iv) The NP-hardness of the constrained clustering problem in dimension 1 for every norm Lp (p ≥ 1).