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With the gaining popularity of rough clustering, soft computing research community is studying relationships between rough and fuzzy clustering as well as their relative advantages. Both rough and fuzzy clustering are less restrictive than conventional clustering. Fuzzy clustering memberships are more descriptive than rough clustering. In some cases, descriptive fuzzy clustering may be advantageous, while in other cases it may lead to information overload. This paper provides an experimental comparison of both the clustering techniques and describes a procedure for conversion from fuzzy membership clustering to rough clustering. However, such a conversion is not always necessary, especially if one only needs lower and upper approximations. Experiments also show that descriptive fuzzy clustering may not always (particularly for high dimensional objects) produce results that are as accurate as direct application of rough clustering. We present analysis of the results from both the techniques.
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Joshi, M., Lingras, P., Rao, C.R. (2010). Analysis of Rough and Fuzzy Clustering. In: Yu, J., Greco, S., Lingras, P., Wang, G., Skowron, A. (eds) Rough Set and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16248-0_92
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