A novel stochastic generalized cellular automata for self-organizing data clustering

This paper is devoted to a novel stochastic generalized cellular automata (GCA) for self-organizing data clustering. The GCA transforms the data clustering process into a stochastic process over the configuration space in the GCA array. The proposed approach is characterized by the self-organizing clustering and many advantages in terms of the insensitivity to noise, quality robustness to clustered data, suitability for high-dimensional and massive data sets, the learning ability, and the easier hardware implementation with the VLSI systolic technology. The simulations and comparisons have shown the effectiveness and good performance of the proposed GCA approach to data clustering.