Clustering Categorical Data: An Approach Based on Dynamical Systems

Summary: Clustering unordered categorical data via iterative weight propagation on values, yielding a co-occurrence–based similarity; framed as a nonlinear dynamical system. Experiments on synthetic and real data show rapid convergence to category correlations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8498
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00012498064
Overall Rank: 1,336 | 90.71%
DOI: -

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5,599	Answering Imprecise Queries over Web Databases	2005	VLDB	5.4160529e-05
6,544	A Framework for Measuring Changes in Data Characteristics	1999	PODS	5.0202405e-05
10,060	Categorical Data Clustering via Value Order Estimated Distance Metric Learning	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,189	Randomized Generalization for Aggregate Suppression Over Hidden Web Databases	2011	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.0010864752
33	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00077324389
330	The Query By Image Content (QBIC) System	1995	SIGMOD	0.00027229588
473	Sampling Large Databases for Association Rules	1996	VLDB	0.0002233798
657	Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data	1997	SIGMOD	0.00018553891
1,293	Content-Based Image Indexing	1994	VLDB	0.00012783639

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