CURLER: Finding and Visualizing Nonlinear Correlation Clusters

Summary: CURLER finds and visualizes nonlinear correlation clusters in subspaces of high-dimensional data. It defines co-sharing level to fuse clusters by proximity and orientation, enabling merging of nonlinear clusters and visualization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3720
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.4651579e-05
Overall Rank: 8,215 | 43.64%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066211

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Authors

1. Anthony K. H. Tung (National University of Singapore)
2. Xin Xu (National University of Singapore)
3. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{tung_sigmod05,
        title = {{CURLER: Finding and Visualizing Nonlinear Correlation Clusters}},
        author = {Tung, Anthony K. H. and Xu, Xin and Ooi, Beng Chin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066211},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066211},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,205	Outlier-robust Clustering using Independent Components	2008	SIGMOD	5.9443504e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
291	OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure	1999	SIGMOD	0.00022264197
304	Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021917388
1,646	Fast Algorithms for Projected Clustering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00010128564
1,833	Finding Generalized Projected Clusters in High Dimensional Spaces	2000	SIGMOD	9.6566846e-05
3,550	A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Fast Projective Clustering	2002	SIGMOD	7.3200789e-05
3,663	Optimal Grid-Clustering: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in High-Dimensional Clustering	1999	VLDB	7.2151113e-05
4,856	Computing Clusters of Correlation Connected Objects	2004	SIGMOD	6.4752952e-05

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