Clustering structure analysis in time-series data with density-based clusterability measure

Autor: Tomi Raty, Juho Jokinen, Timo Lintonen
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Jokinen, J, Raty, T & Lintonen, T 2019, ' Clustering structure analysis in time-series data with density-based clusterability measure ', IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 6, no. 6, 8894746, pp. 1332-1343 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2019.1911744
ISSN: 2329-9274
2329-9266
DOI: 10.1109/jas.2019.1911744
Popis: Clustering is used to gain an intuition of the structures in the data. Most of the current clustering algorithms produce a clustering structure even on data that do not possess such structure. In these cases, the algorithms force a structure in the data instead of discovering one. To avoid false structures in the relations of data, a novel clusterability assessment method called density-based clusterability measure is proposed in this paper. It measures the prominence of clustering structure in the data to evaluate whether a cluster analysis could produce a meaningful insight to the relationships in the data. This is especially useful in time-series data since visualizing the structure in time-series data is hard. The performance of the clusterability measure is evaluated against several synthetic data sets and time-series data sets, which illustrate that the density-based clusterability measure can successfully indicate clustering structure of time-series data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE