2010 ClusteringbySynchronization

• (Böhm et al., 2010) ⇒ Christian Böhm, Claudia Plant, Junming Shao, and Qinli Yang. (2010). “Clustering by Synchronization.” In: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010). doi:10.1145/1835804.1835879

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Synchronization is a powerful basic concept in nature regulating a large variety of complex processes ranging from the metabolism in the cell to social behavior in groups of individuals. Therefore, synchronization phenomena have been extensively studied and models robustly capturing the dynamical synchronization process have been proposed, e.g. the Extensive Kuramoto Model. Inspired by the powerful concept of synchronization|synchronization, we propose Sync, a novel approach to clustering. The basic idea is to view each data object as a phase oscillator and simulate the interaction behavior of the objects over time. As time evolves, similar objects naturally synchronize together and form distinct clusters. Inherited from synchronization, Sync has several desirable properties: The clusters revealed by dynamic synchronization truly reflect the intrinsic structure of the data set, Sync does not rely on any distribution assumption and allows detecting clusters of arbitrary number, shape and size. Moreover, the concept of synchronization|synchronization allows natural outlier handling, since outliers do not synchronize with cluster objects. For fully automatic clustering, we propose to combine Sync with the Minimum Description Length principle. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real world data demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2010 ClusteringbySynchronization	Christian Böhm Claudia Plant Junming Shao Qinli Yang			Clustering by Synchronization		KDD-2010 Proceedings		10.1145/1835804.1835879		2010