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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
h781510ef8e55d9a1
Venue
VLDB
Year
1994
Pagerank
0.00034579889
Overall Rank
94 | 99.37%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{ng_vldb94,
        title = {{Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining}},
        author = {Ng, Raymond T. and Han, Jiawei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {144--155},
        year = {1994}
}

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32 BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases 1996 SIGMOD 0.00049737458
142 LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers 2000 SIGMOD 0.00029202746
250 An Effective Hash-Based Algorithm for Mining Association Rules 1995 SIGMOD 0.00023156569
300 OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure 1999 SIGMOD 0.00021810545
308 Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications 1998 SIGMOD 0.00021473921
363 CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019987463
375 Graph Clustering Based on Structural/Attribute Similarities 2009 VLDB 0.00019628745
488 FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets 1995 SIGMOD 0.00017457851
583 Efficient Algorithms for Mining Outliers from Large Data Sets 2000 SIGMOD 0.00015960125
621 Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences 1997 SIGMOD 0.00015492309
695 Algorithms for Mining Distance-Based Outliers in Large Datasets 1998 VLDB 0.00014702685
928 A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams 2003 VLDB 0.00013025824
1,077 Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information 1999 SIGMOD 0.00012154948
1,305 STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach to Spatial Data Mining 1997 VLDB 0.00011099619
1,634 Local Dimensionality Reduction: A New Approach to Indexing High Dimensional Spaces 2000 VLDB 0.0001001862
1,679 Fast Algorithms for Projected Clustering 1999 SIGMOD 9.9079414e-05
1,756 Semantic Compression and Pattern Extraction with Fascicles 1999 VLDB 9.7140303e-05
1,945 Incremental Clustering for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment 1998 VLDB 9.3257256e-05
1,986 WaveCluster: A Multi-Resolution Clustering Approach for Very Large Spatial Databases 1998 VLDB 9.2514331e-05
2,003 SQLEM: Fast Clustering in SQL using the EM Algorithm 2000 SIGMOD 9.208656e-05
3,618 A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Fast Projective Clustering 2002 SIGMOD 7.1559402e-05
3,740 Optimal Grid-Clustering: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in High-Dimensional Clustering 1999 VLDB 7.0595359e-05
4,184 YADING: Fast Clustering of Large-Scale Time Series Data 2015 VLDB 6.7540884e-05
4,299 Outlier Detection for High Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 6.6789252e-05
4,637 Association Rules over Interval Data 1997 SIGMOD 6.4923571e-05
4,664 Data Mining Using Two-Dimensional Optimized Association Rules: Scheme, Algorithms, and Visualization 1996 SIGMOD 6.4800763e-05
4,743 Density-based Place Clustering in Geo-Social Networks 2014 SIGMOD 6.4396758e-05
4,785 LinkClus: Efficient Clustering via Heterogeneous Semantic Links 2006 VLDB 6.4150472e-05
4,873 Mining Optimized Association Rules for Numeric Attributes 1996 PODS 6.372839e-05
4,922 Clustering by Pattern Similarity in Large Data Sets 2002 SIGMOD 6.3523165e-05
5,328 Filter Trees for Managing Spatial Data Over a Range of Size Granularities 1996 VLDB 6.1778312e-05
6,012 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.9143092e-05
6,020 The 3W Model and Algebra for Unified Data Mining 2000 VLDB 5.9129763e-05
6,052 Spatial Join Selectivity Using Power Laws 2000 SIGMOD 5.9028248e-05
7,162 C2P: Clustering based on Closest Pairs 2001 VLDB 5.5957758e-05
7,352 A Framework for Measuring Changes in Data Characteristics 1999 PODS 5.5448455e-05
7,743 Clustering Objects on a Spatial Network 2004 SIGMOD 5.4613068e-05
8,847 Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data 2019 VLDB 5.2646682e-05
9,446 A Framework for Projected Clustering of High Dimensional Data Streams 2004 VLDB 5.1758119e-05
10,139 Distance-Based Outlier Detection: Consolidation and Renewed Bearing 2010 VLDB 5.0746983e-05
13,054 k-Means Projective Clustering 2004 PODS 4.9793485e-05
13,105 A Shrinking-Based Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis 2003 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,181 INSITE: A Tool for Real-Time Knowledge Discovery from Users Web Navigation 2000 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,253 GeoMiner: A System Prototype for Spatial Data Mining 1997 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-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 0.00064420972
146 Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees 1993 SIGMOD 0.00029061754
359 Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Attribute-Oriented Approach 1992 VLDB 0.00020013291
452 An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications 1992 VLDB 0.00018018759
487 Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries 1990 SIGMOD 0.00017462723
859 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00013418999
1,144 Optimization Strategies for Spatial Query Processing 1991 VLDB 0.00011842581
2,656 Loading Data into Description Reasoners 1993 SIGMOD 8.1695181e-05
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