GA-based clustering algorithms often employ either simple GA, steady state GA or their variants and fail to consistently and efficiently identify high quality solutions (best known optima) of given clustering problems, which involve large data sets with many local optima. To circumvent this problem, we propose Niching Genetic K-means Algorithm (NGKA) that is based on modified deterministic crowding and embeds the computationally attractive k-means. Our experiments show that NGKA can consistently and efficiently identify high quality solutions. Experiments use both simulated and real data with varying size and varying number of local optima. The significance of NGKA is also shown on the experimental data sets by comparing through simulations with Genetically Guided Algorithm (GGA) and Genetic K-means Algorithm (GKA). © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.
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Sheng, W., Tucker, A., & Liu, X. (2004). Clustering with Niching Genetic K-means Algorithm. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3103, 162–173. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24855-2_15
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