Unsupervised Classification

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay has many years of experience in the development of soft computing techniques. Among other awards and positions, she has received senior researcher Humboldt Fellowships, and she is a regular visitor to the DKFZ (German Cancer Research Centre) and to European and North American universities, collaborating in multidisciplinary teams on applications in the areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. Among other awards Prof. Bandyopadhyay received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2010, she is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India and she is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Sriparna Saha is an assistant professor in the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Among her positions and awards, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Trento and in Heidelberg, and she received the Google India Women in Engineering Award in 2008. Her research interests include multiobjective optimization, evolutionary computation, clustering, and pattern recognition.

From the reviews: "The book focuses on emerging metaheuristic approaches to unsupervised classification, with an emphasis on a symmetry-based definition of similarity. ... I found this book very appealing. I also thought of it as very valuable for my preoccupations towards the real-world application of unsupervised classification to medical imaging. I thus believe that, when reading this book, junior as well as experienced researchers will find many new challenging theoretical and practical ideas." (Catalin Stoean, zbMATH, Vol. 1276, 2014) "The book views clustering as a (multiobjective) optimization problem and tackles it with metaheuristics algorithms. More interestingly, the authors of this book propose the exploitation of the concepts of point and line symmetry to define new distances to be used in clustering techniques. ... researchers in the field will surely appreciate it as a good reference on the use of the symmetry notion in clustering." (Nicola Di Mauro, Computing Reviews, July, 2013)

• Chap. 1 Introduction.- Chap. 2 Some Single- and Multiobjective Optimization Techniques.- Chap. 3 SimilarityMeasures.- Chap. 4 Clustering Algorithms.- Chap. 5 Point Symmetry Based Distance Measures and their Applications to Clustering.- Chap. 6 A Validity Index Based on Symmetry: Application to Satellite Image Segmentation.- Chap. 7 Symmetry Based Automatic Clustering.- Chap. 8 Some Line Symmetry Distance Based Clustering Techniques.- Chap. 9 Use of Multiobjective Optimization for Data Clustering.- References.- Index.