This paper discusses the application of particle swarm optimization (PSO) to data clustering. Four different methods of PSO are tested on six test data sets and compared to k-means and fuzzy c-means. The four PSO methods, combinations of the constriction method, inertia, and the predator-prey method all out-perform k-means and fuzzy c-means in all test cases to varying degrees in terms of quantization error.
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