Download or read book Clustering: Theoretical And Practical Aspects written by Dan A Simovici and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique compendium gives an updated presentation of clustering, one of the most challenging tasks in machine learning. The book provides a unitary presentation of classical and contemporary algorithms ranging from partitional and hierarchical clustering up to density-based clustering, clustering of categorical data, and spectral clustering.Most of the mathematical background is provided in appendices, highlighting algebraic and complexity theory, in order to make this volume as self-contained as possible. A substantial number of exercises and supplements makes this a useful reference textbook for researchers and students.