A comprehensive survey of clustering algorithms: State-of-the-art machine learning applications, taxonomy, challenges, and future research prospects

AE Ezugwu, AM Ikotun, OO Oyelade… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Therefore, the concept of automatic data clustering algorithms is … clustering algorithms refer
to any clustering techniques used to automatically determine the number of clusters without …

K-means clustering algorithms: A comprehensive review, variants analysis, and advances in the era of big data

AM Ikotun, AE Ezugwu, L Abualigah, B Abuhaija… - Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
… A comprehensive review of the K-means algorithm is … trending application areas of the
K-means clustering algorithm. … conducting a review of the K-means clustering algorithm variants. …

Application of k-means and hierarchical clustering techniques for analysis of air pollution: A review (1980–2019)

P Govender, V Sivakumar - Atmospheric pollution research, 2020 - Elsevier
… Since the 1980's, air pollution studies began employing clustering techniques, and has … a
review of such studies. In particular, two well known and commonly used clustering methods ie …

[HTML][HTML] Clustering objectives in wireless sensor networks: A survey and research direction analysis

A Shahraki, A Taherkordi, Ø Haugen, F Eliassen - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
… To select the best CHs, clustering methods can use centralized or distributed CH selection
… Rather, we review the most significant clustering techniques in WSNs based on their …

The k-means Algorithm: A Comprehensive Survey and Performance Evaluation

M Ahmed, R Seraj, SMS Islam - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
analysis along with a thorough comparison among different k-means clustering algorithms
… Due to their popularity and ease of use, k-means clustering methods are being used in …

Deep clustering: A comprehensive survey

Y Ren, J Pu, Z Yang, J Xu, G Li, X Pu… - … on Neural Networks …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… With different data sources, we systematically distinguish the clustering methods in terms
of … Some clustering methods use a mature classification network to initialize the feature …

Machine learning: Algorithms, real-world applications and research directions

IH Sarker - SN computer science, 2021 - Springer
… discuss and summarize various types of clustering methods. … have been proposed with the
ability to grouping data in machine … methods that are used widely in various application areas. …

Cluster quality analysis using silhouette score

KR Shahapure, C Nicholas - 2020 IEEE 7th international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We studied the use of silhouette scores and scatter plots to … of clusters we specified in
running the k-means clustering … of clusters obtained by running k-means clustering algorithm on …

Particle swarm optimization algorithm and its applications: a systematic review

AG Gad - Archives of computational methods in engineering, 2022 - Springer
… the evolution of clustering techniques based on PSO and … , and PSO-based data clustering
approaches, proving that there is … application domains of PSO relevant to clustering. However, …

A quantitative discriminant method of elbow point for the optimal number of clusters in clustering algorithm

C Shi, B Wei, S Wei, W Wang, H Liu, J Liu - EURASIP journal on wireless …, 2021 - Springer
… Data analysts can use clustering to exploit the potential optimal cluster number for … clustering
algorithm used in this study is K-means++, which is a centroid-based clustering algorithm. …