A Self-Learning Clustering Algorithm Based on Clustering Coefficient

This paper presents a novel clustering algorithm based on clustering coefficient. It includes two steps: First, k-nearest-neighbor method and correlation convergence are employed for a preliminary clustering. Then, the results are further split and merged according to intra-class and inter-class concentration degree based on clustering coefficient. The proposed method takes correlation between each other in a cluster into account, thereby improving the weakness existed in previous methods that consider only the correlation with center or core data element. Experiments show that our algorithm performs better in clustering compact data elements as well as forming some irregular shape clusters. It is more suitable for applications with little prior knowledge, e.g. hotspots discovery. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.