Multivariate spatial condition mapping using subtractive fuzzy cluster means

Date
2014-10-13
Authors
Sabit, H
Al-Anbuky, A
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Journal Article
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MDPI AG
Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are usually deployed for monitoring given physical phenomena taking place in a specific space and over a specific duration of time. The spatio-temporal distribution of these phenomena often correlates to certain physical events. To appropriately characterise these events-phenomena relationships over a given space for a given time frame, we require continuous monitoring of the conditions. WSNs are perfectly suited for these tasks, due to their inherent robustness. This paper presents a subtractive fuzzy cluster means algorithm and its application in data stream mining for wireless sensor systems over a cloud-computing-like architecture, which we call sensor cloud data stream mining. Benchmarking on standard mining algorithms, the k-means and the FCM algorithms, we have demonstrated that the subtractive fuzzy cluster means model can perform high quality distributed data stream mining tasks comparable to centralised data stream mining.

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Data stream mining , Fuzzy clustering , Sensor cloud , Wireless sensor network
Source
Sensors 2014, 14(10), 18960-18981; doi:10.3390/s141018960
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).