Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Clustering

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay has many years of experience in the development of soft computing techniques. Among other awards and positions, she has received senior researcher Humboldt Fellowships, and she is a regular visitor to the DKFZ (German Cancer Research Centre) and to European and North American universities, collaborating in multidisciplinary teams on applications in the areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. Among other awards Prof. Bandyopadhyay received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2010, she is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India and she is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Sriparna Saha is an assistant professor in the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Among her positions and awards, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Trento and in Heidelberg, and she received the Google India Women in Engineering Award in 2008. Her research interests include multiobjective optimization, evolutionary computation, clustering, and pattern recognition.

Introduction.- Genetic Algorithms and Multiobjective Optimization.- Data Mining Fundamentals.- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.- Multiobjective Genetic-Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Clustering.- Combining Pareto-Optimal Clusters Using Supervised Learning.- Two-Stage Fuzzy Clustering.- Clustering Categorical Data in a Multiobjective Framework.- Unsupervised Cancer Classification and Gene Marker Identification.- Multiobjective Biclustering in Microarray Gene Expression Data.- References.- Index.