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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.4

Building Clusters with Lower-Bounded Sizes

Authors: Faisal Abu-Khzam, Cristina Bazgan, Katrin Casel, and Henning Fernau

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 64, 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)

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Classical clustering problems search for a partition of objects into a fixed number of clusters. In many scenarios however the number of clusters is not known or necessarily fixed. Further, clusters are sometimes only considered to be of significance if they have a certain size. We discuss clustering into sets of minimum cardinality k without a fixed number of sets and present a general model for these types of problems. This general framework allows the comparison of different measures to assess the quality of a clustering. We specifically consider nine quality-measures and classify the complexity of the resulting problems with respect to k. Further, we derive some polynomial-time solvable cases for k = 2 with connections to matching-type problems which, among other graph problems, then are used to compute approximations for larger values of k.

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Faisal Abu-Khzam, Cristina Bazgan, Katrin Casel, and Henning Fernau. Building Clusters with Lower-Bounded Sizes. In 27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 64, pp. 4:1-4:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{abukhzam_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.4,
  author =	{Abu-Khzam, Faisal and Bazgan, Cristina and Casel, Katrin and Fernau, Henning},
  title =	{{Building Clusters with Lower-Bounded Sizes}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-026-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{64},
  editor =	{Hong, Seok-Hee},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67742},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Clustering, Approximation Algorithms, Complexity, Matching}
}

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