"Nature-inspired Approaches to Clustering" Julia Handl, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester.
Friday, 9th June 2006, 1400 - 1500 British Summer Time (1300 - 1400 UTC) ESNW Access Grid, Room 1.10, Kilburn Building This talk will discuss two distinct approaches to clustering, both of which draw their inspiration from processes observed in nature. Ant-based clustering has been originally designed to model the clustering and sorting behaviours observed in real ant colonies, and has later been modified to obtain an algorithm suitable for the clustering of numerical data. Interestingly, the algorithm works without an explicit formulation of the `aims' of the clustering task. In contrast, multiobjective evolutionary clustering is based on the formulation of clustering as a multiobjective optimization problem. Evolutionary algorithms, which draw their inspiration from the process of natural evolution, can then be used to evolve the set of optimal clustering solutions. Access Grid Information Anyone wishing to view a seminar via Access Grid should note the following: Virtual venue: University of Manchester (1.10) Jabber room: uom1...@conference.mcs.anl.gov IGPix: roberts.agsc.man.ac.uk/igpix/uom110 For technical assistance regarding the Access Grid, please contact supp...@agsc.ja.net If possible, please let us know in advance if your site intends to join a seminar. Further Information http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/research/seminars/ Dr Lee Margetts Senior Consultant High Performance Computing University of Manchester http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/margetts
