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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1997
Rakesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Johannes Ernst Gehrke, Madison, WI (US);
Dimitrios Gunopulos, San Jose, CA (US);
Prabhakar Raghavan, Saratoga, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for finding clusters of units in high-dimensional data having the steps of determining dense units in selected subspaces within a data space of the high-dimensional data, determining each cluster of dense units that are connected to other dense units in the selected subspaces within the data space, determining maximal regions covering each cluster of connected dense units, determining a minimal cover for each cluster of connected dense units, and identifying the minimal cover for each cluster of connected dense units.