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Self-Organizing Tree Using Artificial Ants

Self-Organizing Tree Using Artificial Ants
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Author(s): Hanene Azzag (Université Paris 13, France)and Mustapha Lebbah (Université Paris 13, France)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 15
Source title: Interdisciplinary Advances in Information Technology Research
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3625-5.ch005

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors propose a new approach for topological hierarchical tree clustering inspired from the self-assembly behavior of artificial ants. The method, called SoTree (Self-organizing Tree), builds, autonomously and simultaneously, a topological and hierarchical partitioning of data. Each ’’cluster’’ associated to one cell of a 2D grid is modeled by a tree. The artificial ants similarly build a tree where each ant represents a node/data. The benefit of this approach is the intuitive representation of hierarchical relations in the data. This is especially appealing in explorative data mining applications, allowing the inherent structure of the data to unfold in a highly intuitive fashion.

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