A new heuristic possibilistic clustering algorithm for feature selection

The paper deals with the problem of selection of the most informative features. A new effective and efficient heuristic possibilistic clustering algorithm for feature selection is proposed. First, a brief description of basic concepts of the heuristic approach to possibilistic clustering is provided. A technique of initial data preprocessing is described and a fuzzy correlation measure is considered. The new algorithm is described and then illustrated on the well-known Iris data set benchmark and the results obtained are compared with those by using the conventional, well-known and widely employed method of principal component analysis (PCA). Conclusions and suggestions for future research are given.