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Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining

Summary: Introduces CLARANS, a randomized-search clustering method for spatial data. Two spatial data mining algorithms built on CLARANS enable discoveries difficult for prior methods, with CLARANS outperforming existing clustering approaches in speed. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8189
Venue
VLDB
Year
1994
Pagerank
0.00080846213
Overall Rank
27 | 99.82%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
33 BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases 1996 SIGMOD 0.00077399244
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159 LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers 2000 SIGMOD 0.00040135453
263 OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029955858
277 Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications 1998 SIGMOD 0.00029356968
313 Graph Clustering Based on Structural/Attribute Similarities 2009 VLDB 0.0002809849
340 CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases 1998 SIGMOD 0.00026854084
471 FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022348285
663 A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams 2003 VLDB 0.00018466049
689 Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences 1997 SIGMOD 0.00018069077
697 Efficient Algorithms for Mining Outliers from Large Data Sets 2000 SIGMOD 0.00017964755
768 Algorithms for Mining Distance-Based Outliers in Large Datasets 1998 VLDB 0.00016864875
1,083 STING : A Statistical Information Grid Approach to Spatial Data Mining 1997 VLDB 0.00014181803
1,240 Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information 1999 SIGMOD 0.00013090678
1,375 SQLEM: Fast Clustering in SQL using the EM Algorithm 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012321024
1,523 WaveCluster: A Multi-Resolution Clustering Approach for Very Large Spatial Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00011515189
1,596 Fast Algorithms for Projected Clustering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00011210688
1,599 Semantic Compression and Pattern Extraction with Fascicles 1999 VLDB 0.00011203327
1,802 Local Dimensionality Reduction: A New Approach to Indexing High Dimensional Spaces 2000 VLDB 0.0001048177
1,803 Incremental Clustering for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment 1998 VLDB 0.00010481475
3,381 A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Fast Projective Clustering 2002 SIGMOD 7.1538392e-05
3,477 Optimal Grid-Clustering: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in High-Dimensional Clustering 1999 VLDB 7.0558203e-05
3,817 Association Rules over Interval Data 1997 SIGMOD 6.72838e-05
4,333 LinkClus: Efficient Clustering via Heterogeneous Semantic Links 2006 VLDB 6.273124e-05
4,515 Mining Optimized Association Rules for Numeric Attributes 1996 PODS 6.1157444e-05
4,549 Outlier Detection for High Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 6.0866685e-05
4,613 Filter Trees for Managing Spatial Data Over a Range of Size Granularities 1996 VLDB 6.0427196e-05
4,692 Data Mining Using Two-Dimensional Optimized Association Rules: Scheme, Algorithms, and Visualization 1996 SIGMOD 5.987105e-05
4,792 YADING: Fast Clustering of Large-Scale Time Series Data 2015 VLDB 5.9132429e-05
4,818 Clustering by Pattern Similarity in Large Data Sets 2002 SIGMOD 5.8955574e-05
5,000 Density-based Place Clustering in Geo-Social Networks 2014 SIGMOD 5.7636502e-05
5,280 The 3W Model and Algebra for Unified Data Mining 2000 VLDB 5.5851818e-05
5,988 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.2394981e-05
6,170 Spatial Join Selectivity Using Power Laws 2000 SIGMOD 5.1708554e-05
6,542 A Framework for Measuring Changes in Data Characteristics 1999 PODS 5.0147398e-05
6,892 C2P: Clustering based on Closest Pairs 2001 VLDB 4.8889412e-05
7,704 Clustering Objects on a Spatial Network 2004 SIGMOD 4.6681826e-05
8,784 Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data 2019 VLDB 4.4473392e-05
9,067 A Framework for Projected Clustering of High Dimensional Data Streams 2004 VLDB 4.3991821e-05
9,790 Distance-Based Outlier Detection: Consolidation and Renewed Bearing 2010 VLDB 4.2782534e-05
12,580 k-Means Projective Clustering 2004 PODS 4.1905499e-05
12,631 A Shrinking-Based Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis 2003 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,707 INSITE: A Tool for Real-Time Knowledge Discovery from Users Web Navigation 2000 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,778 GeoMiner: A System Prototype for Spatial Data Mining 1997 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
13 Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases 1993 SIGMOD 0.0010863639
146 Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Attribute-Oriented Approach 1992 VLDB 0.00041260875
147 Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees 1993 SIGMOD 0.00041201518
232 An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications 1992 VLDB 0.00032060702
400 Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries 1990 SIGMOD 0.00024308369
569 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019912758
721 Optimization Strategies for Spatial Query Processing 1991 VLDB 0.00017530857
1,192 Loading Data into Description Reasoners 1993 SIGMOD 0.00013417415
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