orithm-based clustering technique, called GA-clustering, is proposed in this article.

The searching
capability of genetic algorithms is xin order to search for appropriate cluster centres in the feature space
such
that a similarity metric of the resulting clusters is optimized. The chromosomes, which are represented as
strings of real
numbers, encode the centres of a "xed umber of clusters. The superiority of the GA-clustering algorithm over
the
commonly used K-means algorit data sets. ( 2000
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