Article: Reports from Iran University highlight recent research in manufacturing technology.

According to recent research from Iran, "Cluster analysis, which is the subject of active research in several fields, such as statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining, is to partition a given set of data or objects into clusters. K-means is used as a popular clustering method due to its simplicity and high speed in clustering large datasets."

"However, K-means has two shortcomings. First, dependency on the initial state and convergence to local optima. The second is that global solutions of large problems cannot be found with reasonable amount of computation effort. In order to overcome local optima problem lots of studies done in ...

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