There are several distinct implementations available online. Also, Yu Lee and I have some experience on developing hierarchical clustering (clustering the data with arbitrary shape through connectivity-based clustering) on hadoop.
If you think this is OK, Yu Lee and I can take this task of implementation, test, and maintenance. Also, we would periodically report the progress. We can fork the mahout from github and conduct the implementation independently. 2013/5/7 Ted Dunning (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1206?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13651369#comment-13651369] > > Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-1206: > ------------------------------------- > > Do you know of scalable algorithms for these other algorithms? > > Is there a demonstrated need? Who will maintain the implementations? > > > > > Add density-based clustering algorithms to mahout > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: MAHOUT-1206 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1206 > > Project: Mahout > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Reporter: Yexi Jiang > > Labels: clustering > > > > The clustering algorithms (kmeans, fuzzy kmeans, dirichlet clustering, > and spectral cluster) clustering data by assuming that the data can be > clustered into the regular hyper sphere or ellipsoid. However, in > practical, not all the data can be clustered in this way. > > To enable the data to be clustered in arbitrary shapes, clustering > algorithms like DBSCAN, BIRCH, CLARANCE ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis#Density-based_clustering) > are proposed. > > It is better that we can implement one or some of these clustering > algorithm to enrich the clustering library. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > -- ------ Yexi Jiang, ECS 251, yjian...@cs.fiu.edu School of Computer and Information Science, Florida International University Homepage: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~yjian004/
