標題: Clustering spatial data with a geographic constraint: exploring local search
作者: Liao, Zhung-Xun
Peng, Wen-Chih
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: Dual clustering;Spatial clustering;Spatial data mining
公開日期: 1-四月-2012
摘要: Spatial data objects that possess attributes in the optimization domain and the geographic domain are now widely available. For example, sensor data are one kind of spatial data objects. The location of a sensor is an attribute in the geographic domain, while its reading is an attribute in the optimization domain. Previous studies discuss dual clustering problems that attempt to partition spatial data objects into several groups, such that objects in the same group have similar values in their optimization attributes and form a compact region in the geographic domain. However, previous studies do not clearly define compact regions. Therefore, this paper formulates a connective dual clustering problem with an explicit connected constraint given. Objects with a geographic distance smaller than or equal to the connected constraint are connected. The goal of the connective dual clustering problem is to derive clusters that contain objects with similar values in the optimization domain and are connected in the geographic domain. This study further proposes an algorithm CLS (Clustering with Local Search) to efficiently derive clusters. This algorithm consists of two phases: the ConGraph (standing for Connective Graph) transformation phase and the clustering phase. In the ConGraph transformation phase, CLS first transforms the data objects into a ConGraph that captures geographic constraints among data objects and selects initial seeds for clustering. Then, the initial seeds selected nearby data objects and formed coarse clusters by exploring local search in the clustering phase. Moreover, coarse clusters are merged and finely turned. Experiments show that CLS algorithm is more efficient and scalable than existing methods.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/16062
ISSN: 0219-1377
期刊: KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
結束頁: 153
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