BSO-MV: An Optimized Multiview Clustering Approach for Items Recommendation in Social Networks

Clustering-based approaches have been demonstrated to be efficient and scalable to large-scale data sets. However, clustering-based recommender systems suffer from relatively low accuracy and coverage. To address these issues, we propose in this article an optimized multiview clustering approach for the recommendation of items in social networks. First, the selection of the initial medoids is optimized using the Bees Swarm optimization algorithm (BSO) in order to generate better partitions (i.e. refining the quality of medoids according to the objective function). Then, the multiview clustering (MV) is applied, where users are iteratively clustered from the views of both rating patterns and social information (i.e. friendships and trust). Finally, a framework is proposed for testing the different alternatives, namely: (1) the standard recommendation algorithms; (2) the clustering-based and the optimized clustering-based recommendation algorithms using BSO; and (3) the MV and the optimized MV (BSO-MV) algorithms. Experimental results conducted on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed BSO-MV algorithm in terms of improving accuracy, as it outperforms the existing related approaches and baselines.

Entropy-Based Multiview Data Clustering Analysis in the Era of Industry 4.0

In the era of Industry 4.0, single-view clustering algorithm is difficult to play a role in the face of complex data, i.e., multiview data. In recent years, an extension of the traditional single-view clustering is multiview clustering technology, which is becoming more and more popular. Although the multiview clustering algorithm has better effectiveness than the single-view clustering algorithm, almost all the current multiview clustering algorithms usually have two weaknesses as follows. (1) The current multiview collaborative clustering strategy lacks theoretical support. (2) The weight of each view is averaged. To solve the above-mentioned problems, we used the Havrda-Charvat entropy and fuzzy index to construct a new collaborative multiview fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm using fuzzy weighting called Co-MVFCM. The corresponding results show that the Co-MVFCM has the best clustering performance among all the comparison clustering algorithms.

Cancer Subtype Recognition Based on Laplacian Rank Constrained Multiview Clustering

Integrating multigenomic data to recognize cancer subtype is an important task in bioinformatics. In recent years, some multiview clustering algorithms have been proposed and applied to identify cancer subtype. However, these clustering algorithms ignore that each data contributes differently to the clustering results during the fusion process, and they require additional clustering steps to generate the final labels. In this paper, a new one-step method for cancer subtype recognition based on graph learning framework is designed, called Laplacian Rank Constrained Multiview Clustering (LRCMC). LRCMC first forms a graph for a single biological data to reveal the relationship between data points and uses affinity matrix to encode the graph structure. Then, it adds weights to measure the contribution of each graph and finally merges these individual graphs into a consensus graph. In addition, LRCMC constructs the adaptive neighbors to adjust the similarity of sample points, and it uses the rank constraint on the Laplacian matrix to ensure that each graph structure has the same connected components. Experiments on several benchmark datasets and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm comparing to the state-of-the-art methods.

MR Brain Image Segmentation Using a Fuzzy Weighted Multiview Possibility Clustering Algorithm with Low-Rank Constraints

To expand the multiview clustering abilities of traditional PCM in increasingly complex MR brain image segmentation tasks, a fuzzy weighted multiview possibility clustering algorithm with low-rank constraints (LR-FW-MVPCM) is proposed. The LR-FW-MVPCM can effectively mine both the internal consistency and diversity of multiview data, which are two principles for constructing a multiview clustering algorithm. First, a kernel norm is introduced as a low-rank constraint of the fuzzy membership matrix among multiple perspectives. Second, to ensure the clustering accuracy of the algorithm, the view fuzzy weighted mechanism is introduced to the framework of possibility c-means clustering, and the weights of each view are adaptively allocated during the iterative optimization process. The segmentation results of different brain tissues based on the proposed algorithm and three other algorithms illustrate that the LR-FW-MVPCM algorithm can segment MR brain images much more effectively and ensure better segmentation performance.