A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel model optimization algorithm—External Calibration-Assisted Screening (ECA)— that ...

Distributed data mining techniques and mainly distributed clustering are widely used in the last decade because they deal with very large and heterogeneous datasets which cannot be gathered centrally.

As one type of efficient unsupervised learning methods, clustering algorithms have been widely used in data mining and knowledge discovery with noticeable advantages. However, clustering algorithms ...