A Novel Heuristic Approach for the Simultaneous Selection of the Optimal Clustering Method and Its Internal Parameters for Time Series Data

Adriana Navajas-Guerrero*, Diana Manjarres, Eva Portillo, Itziar Landa-Torres

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Abstract

Clustering methods have become popular in the last years due to the need of analyzing the high amount of collected data from different fields of knowledge. Nevertheless, the main drawback of clustering is the selection of the optimal method along with its internal parameters in an unsupervised environment. In the present paper, a novel heuristic approach based on the Harmony Search algorithm aided with a local search procedure is presented for simultaneously optimizing the best clustering algorithm (K-means, DBSCAN and Hierarchical clustering) and its optimal internal parameters based on the Silhouette index. Extensive simulation results show that the presented approach outperforms the standard clustering configurations and also other works in the literature in different Time Series and synthetic databases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications SOCO 2019, Proceedings
EditorsFrancisco Martínez Álvarez, Alicia Troncoso Lora, José António Sáez Muñoz, Emilio Corchado, Héctor Quintián
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages179-189
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030200541
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, SOCO 2019 - Seville, Spain
Duration: 13 May 201915 May 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume950
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, SOCO 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySeville
Period13/05/1915/05/19

Keywords

  • Clustering
  • Harmony Search
  • Internal parameters configuration
  • Optimization
  • Time series clustering

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