Augmented weighted K-means grey wolf optimizer: An enhanced metaheuristic algorithm for data clustering problems

M Premkumar, G Sinha, MD Ramasamy, S Sahu… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
This study presents the K-means clustering-based grey wolf optimizer, a new algorithm
intended to improve the optimization capabilities of the conventional grey wolf optimizer in …

A modified grey wolf optimizer based data clustering algorithm

R Ahmadi, G Ekbatanifard, P Bayat - Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Data clustering is an important data analysis and data mining tool in many fields such as
pattern recognition and image processing. The goal of data clustering is to optimally …

Clustering analysis using a novel locality-informed grey wolf-inspired clustering approach

I Aljarah, M Mafarja, AA Heidari, H Faris… - … and Information Systems, 2020 - Springer
Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is known as one of the recent popular metaheuristic algorithms
inspired from the social collaboration and team hunting activities of grey wolves in nature …

K-means-based nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms for automatic data clustering problems: Recent advances and future directions

AM Ikotun, MS Almutari, AE Ezugwu - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
K-means clustering algorithm is a partitional clustering algorithm that has been used widely
in many applications for traditional clustering due to its simplicity and low computational …

Nature-inspired metaheuristic techniques for automatic clustering: a survey and performance study

AE Ezugwu - SN Applied Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The application of several swarm intelligence and evolutionary metaheuristic algorithms in
data clustering problems has in the past few decades gained wide popularity and …

A comparative performance study of hybrid firefly algorithms for automatic data clustering

AES Ezugwu, MB Agbaje, N Aljojo, R Els… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In cluster analysis, the goal has always been to extemporize the best possible means of
automatically determining the number of clusters. However, because of lack of prior domain …

Automatic data clustering using hybrid firefly particle swarm optimization algorithm

MB Agbaje, AE Ezugwu, R Els - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The firefly algorithm is a nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm that has
become an important tool for solving most of the toughest optimization problems in almost all …

Grey wolf optimizer based on Powell local optimization method for clustering analysis

S Zhang, Y Zhou - Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One heuristic evolutionary algorithm recently proposed is the grey wolf optimizer (GWO),
inspired by the leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism of grey wolves in nature. This …

[HTML][HTML] WGC: Hybridization of exponential grey wolf optimizer with whale optimization for data clustering

AN Jadhav, N Gomathi - Alexandria engineering journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Data present in abundance increases the complexity of handling them, which affects the
effective decision-making process. Hence, data clustering gains remarkable importance in …

Neighborhood search based improved bat algorithm for data clustering

A Kaur, Y Kumar - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
Clustering is an unsupervised data analytic technique that can determine the similarity
between data objects and put the similar data objects into one cluster. The similarity among …