A Novel Spatial Clustering with Obstacles Constraints Based on Genetic Algorithms and K-Medoids

Spatial clustering is an important research topic in spatial data mining (SDM). Many methods have been proposed in the literature, but few of them have taken into account constraints that may be present in the data or constraints on the clustering. These constraints have significant influence on the results of the clustering process of large spatial data. In this paper, we discuss the problem of spatial clustering with obstacles constraints and propose a novel spatial clustering method based on genetic algorithms (GAs) and K-Medoids, called GKSCOC, which aims to cluster spatial data with obstacles constraints. It can not only give attention to higher local constringency speed and stronger global optimum search, but also get down to the obstacles constraints and practicalities of spatial clustering. The results on real datasets show that it is better than standard GAs and K-Medoids