Hierarchical Clustering Task

A Hierarchical Clustering Task is a non-overlapping clustering task that requires a hierarchical clustering structure.

• AKA: Hierarchical Cluster Analysis, HCA.
• Context:
  • It can be solved by a Hierarchical Clustering System (that implements a Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Density-based Clustering Task.
• See: Soft-Clusters Clustering Task.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hierarchical_clustering Retrieved:2014-11-21.
  • In data mining, hierarchical clustering (also called hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA) is a method of cluster analysis which seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters.

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