Block clustering based on difference of convex functions (DC) programming and DC algorithms

Hoai Minh Le1, Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh

  • 1Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science, University of Lorraine, 57045 Metz, France. minh.le@univ-lorraine.fr

Neural Computation
|June 20, 2013
PubMed

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