BicACO: An ant colony inspired biclustering algorithm

Abstract

A recent proposal developed to avoid some of the drawbacks presented by standard clustering algorithms is the so-called biclustering technique [1], which performs clustering of rows and columns of the data matrix simultaneously, allowing the extraction of additional information from the dataset. Since the biclustering problem is combinatorial, and ant-based systems present several advantages when dealing with this kind of problems [2], in this work we propose an antinspired algorithm for biclustering, which was named bicACO. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.