An innovative approach to genetic programming-based clustering

Abstract

Most of the classical clustering algorithms are strongly dependent on, and sensitive to, parameters such as number of expected clusters and resolution level. To overcome this drawback, a Genetic Programming framework, capable of performing an automatic data clustering, is presented. Moreover, a novel way of representing clusters which provides intelligible information on patterns is introduced together with an innovative clustering process. The effectiveness of the implemented partitioning system is estimated on a medical domain by means of evaluation indices. © 2006 Springer.