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OPTICS
OPTICS (Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure) is a density-based clustering algorithm introduced by Ankerst, Breunig, Kriegel, and Sander in 1999. It generalizes DBSCAN by processing points in an ordering that encodes the full density-based cluster structure of a dataset, enabling the detection of clusters of varying densities through a reachability plot rather than requiring a fixed global density threshold.
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- Ankerst, M., Breunig, M. M., Kriegel, H.-P., & Sander, J. (1999). OPTICS: Ordering points to identify the clustering structure. ACM SIGMOD Record, 28(2), 49–60. DOI: 10.1145/304181.304187 ↗
- Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J., & Xu, X. (1996). A density-based algorithm for discovering clusters in large spatial databases with noise. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-96), 226–231. link ↗
- Aggarwal, C. C., & Reddy, C. K. (Eds.) (2013). Data Clustering: Algorithms and Applications (Ch. 4). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1-4665-5821-2