Gene transposon based clonal selection algorithm for clustering

Inspired by the principle of gene transposon proposed by Barbara McClintock, a new immune computing algorithm for clustering multi-class data sets named as Gene Transposition based Clone Selection Algorithm (GTCSA) is proposed in this paper, The proposed algorithm does not require a prior knowledge of the numbers of clustering; an improved variant of the clonal selection algorithm has been used to determine the number of clusters as well as to refine the cluster center. a novel operator called antibody transposon is introduced to the framework of clonal selection algorithm which can realize to find the optimal number of cluster automatically. The proposed method has been extensively compared with Variable-string-length Genetic Algorithm(VGA)based clustering techniques over a test suit of several real life data sets and synthetic data sets. The results of experiments indicate the superiority of the GTCSA over VGA on stability and convergence rate, when clustering multi-class data sets.