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	Fuzzy C-Means Clustering (FCM)	การคำนวณแบบละเอียด (การสร้างอนุภาคข้อมูล)
สาขาวิชา	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การคำนวณแบบอ่อน
ตระกูล	Machine learning	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	1981	1997
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Joseph Dunn; James Bezdek	Lotfi A. Zadeh (information granulation); developed by Pedrycz, Skowron, Yao
ประเภท	Soft (fuzzy) partitional clustering	Framework for multi-granularity information processing
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Dunn, J. C. (1973). A fuzzy relative of the ISODATA process and its use in detecting compact well-separated clusters. Journal of Cybernetics, 3(3), 32–57.	Zadeh, L. A. (1997). Toward a theory of fuzzy information granulation and its centrality in human reasoning and fuzzy logic. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 90(2), 111–127.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	FCM, fuzzy clustering, soft k-means, bulanık c-ortalama kümeleme	information granulation, computing with granules, three-way granular computing, tanecikli hesaplama
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	3
สรุป	Fuzzy C-Means is a soft clustering algorithm in which every data point belongs to every cluster with a graded membership between 0 and 1, rather than being assigned to exactly one cluster. Originated by Joseph Dunn in 1973 and generalized by James Bezdek in 1981, it minimizes a fuzzy-weighted within-cluster variance, making it well suited to data whose groups overlap or have no sharp boundaries.	Granular computing is a problem-solving paradigm that processes information in 'granules' — clumps of objects drawn together by indistinguishability, similarity, or functionality — rather than at the level of individual data points. Articulated by Lotfi Zadeh in 1997 as fuzzy information granulation and developed into a broad framework, it provides a unifying umbrella over fuzzy sets, rough sets, and interval methods, letting analysis move to whichever level of detail a problem actually requires.