K-Means-Based Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms for Automatic Data Clustering Problems: Recent Advances and Future Directions

K-means clustering algorithm is a partitional clustering algorithm that has been used widely in many applications for traditional clustering due to its simplicity and low computational complexity. This clustering technique depends on the user specification of the number of clusters generated from th...

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Vydané v:Applied sciences Ročník 11; číslo 23; s. 11246
Hlavní autori: Ikotun, Abiodun M., Almutari, Mubarak S., Ezugwu, Absalom E.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2021
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Algorithms
automatic clustering
Bibliometrics
Cluster analysis
Clustering
Data mining
Datasets
Hybridization
K-means clustering
Mathematical programming
nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms
Optimization techniques
Research methodology
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ISSN:2076-3417, 2076-3417
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Abstract K-means clustering algorithm is a partitional clustering algorithm that has been used widely in many applications for traditional clustering due to its simplicity and low computational complexity. This clustering technique depends on the user specification of the number of clusters generated from the dataset, which affects the clustering results. Moreover, random initialization of cluster centers results in its local minimal convergence. Automatic clustering is a recent approach to clustering where the specification of cluster number is not required. In automatic clustering, natural clusters existing in datasets are identified without any background information of the data objects. Nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithms have been deployed in recent times to overcome the challenges of the traditional clustering algorithm in handling automatic data clustering. Some nature-inspired metaheuristics algorithms have been hybridized with the traditional K-means algorithm to boost its performance and capability to handle automatic data clustering problems. This study aims to identify, retrieve, summarize, and analyze recently proposed studies related to the improvements of the K-means clustering algorithm with nature-inspired optimization techniques. A quest approach for article selection was adopted, which led to the identification and selection of 147 related studies from different reputable academic avenues and databases. More so, the analysis revealed that although the K-means algorithm has been well researched in the literature, its superiority over several well-established state-of-the-art clustering algorithms in terms of speed, accessibility, simplicity of use, and applicability to solve clustering problems with unlabeled and nonlinearly separable datasets has been clearly observed in the study. The current study also evaluated and discussed some of the well-known weaknesses of the K-means clustering algorithm, for which the existing improvement methods were conceptualized. It is noteworthy to mention that the current systematic review and analysis of existing literature on K-means enhancement approaches presents possible perspectives in the clustering analysis research domain and serves as a comprehensive source of information regarding the K-means algorithm and its variants for the research community.
AbstractList K-means clustering algorithm is a partitional clustering algorithm that has been used widely in many applications for traditional clustering due to its simplicity and low computational complexity. This clustering technique depends on the user specification of the number of clusters generated from the dataset, which affects the clustering results. Moreover, random initialization of cluster centers results in its local minimal convergence. Automatic clustering is a recent approach to clustering where the specification of cluster number is not required. In automatic clustering, natural clusters existing in datasets are identified without any background information of the data objects. Nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithms have been deployed in recent times to overcome the challenges of the traditional clustering algorithm in handling automatic data clustering. Some nature-inspired metaheuristics algorithms have been hybridized with the traditional K-means algorithm to boost its performance and capability to handle automatic data clustering problems. This study aims to identify, retrieve, summarize, and analyze recently proposed studies related to the improvements of the K-means clustering algorithm with nature-inspired optimization techniques. A quest approach for article selection was adopted, which led to the identification and selection of 147 related studies from different reputable academic avenues and databases. More so, the analysis revealed that although the K-means algorithm has been well researched in the literature, its superiority over several well-established state-of-the-art clustering algorithms in terms of speed, accessibility, simplicity of use, and applicability to solve clustering problems with unlabeled and nonlinearly separable datasets has been clearly observed in the study. The current study also evaluated and discussed some of the well-known weaknesses of the K-means clustering algorithm, for which the existing improvement methods were conceptualized. It is noteworthy to mention that the current systematic review and analysis of existing literature on K-means enhancement approaches presents possible perspectives in the clustering analysis research domain and serves as a comprehensive source of information regarding the K-means algorithm and its variants for the research community.
Author Ezugwu, Absalom E.
Ikotun, Abiodun M.
Almutari, Mubarak S.
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Clustering
Data mining
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K-means clustering
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