Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-9-2003

Abstract

Clustering is a technique commonly used in scientific research. The task of clustering inevitably involves human participation - the clustering is not finished when the computer/algorithm finishes but the user has evaluated, understood and accepted the patterns. This defines a human involved "clustering-analysis/evaluation" iteration. Instead of neglecting this human involvement, we provide a visual framework (VISTA) with all power of algorithmic approaches (since their result can be visualized), and in addition we allow the user to steer/monitor/refine the clustering process with domain knowledge. The visual-rendering result also provides a precise pattern for fast post-processing.

Comments

This paper was presented at the Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM03). Cambridge, Boston, July 2003.

This is the authors' version of the article

DOI

10.1109/SSDM.2003.1214971


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