A Novel Distance Measure for Interval Data

Jie Ouyang, Ishwar K. Sethi

2007

Abstract

Interval data is attracting attention from the data analysis community due to its ability to describe complex concepts. Since clustering is an important data analysis tool, extending these techniques to interval data is important. Applying traditional clustering methods on interval data loses information inherited in this particular data type. This paper proposes a novel dissimilarity measure which explores the internal structure of intervals in a probabilistic manner based on domain knowledge. Our experiments show that interval clustering based on the proposed dissimilarity measure produces meaningful results.

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Ouyang J. and K. Sethi I. (2007). A Novel Distance Measure for Interval Data . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-93-1, pages 49-58. DOI: 10.5220/0002425000490058


in Bibtex Style

@conference{pris07,
author={Jie Ouyang and Ishwar K. Sethi},
title={A Novel Distance Measure for Interval Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={49-58},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002425000490058},
isbn={978-972-8865-93-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - A Novel Distance Measure for Interval Data
SN - 978-972-8865-93-1
AU - Ouyang J.
AU - K. Sethi I.
PY - 2007
SP - 49
EP - 58
DO - 10.5220/0002425000490058