ON FUZZY NEIGHBORHOOD BASED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM WITH LOW COMPLEXITY

The main purpose of this paper is to achieve improvement in the speed of Fuzzy Joint Points (FJP) algorithm. Since FJP approach is a basis for fuzzy neighborhood based clustering algorithms such as Noise-Robust FJP (NRFJP) and Fuzzy Neighborhood DBSCAN (FN-DBSCAN), improving FJP algorithm would an important achievement in terms of these FJP-based methods. Although FJP has many advantages such as robustness, auto detection of the optimal number of clusters by using cluster validity, independency from scale, etc., it is a little bit slow. In order to eliminate this disadvantage, by improving the FJP algorithm, we propose a novel Modified FJP algorithm, which theoretically runs approximately n/log(2) n times faster and which is less complex than the FJP algorithm. We evaluated the performance of the Modified FJP algorithm both analytically and experimentally.