This paper deals with concise study on clustering: existing methods and developments made at various times. Clustering is defined as an unsupervised learning where the targets are sorted out on the foundation of some similarity inherent among them. In the recent
times, we dispense with large masses of data including images, video, social text, DNA, gene information, etc. Data clustering analysis has come out as an efficient technique to accurately achieve the task of categorizing information into sensible groups. Clustering has a deep association
with researches in several scientific fields. k-means algorithm was suggested in 1957. K-mean is the most popular partitional clustering method till date. In many commercial and non-commercial fields, clustering techniques are used. The applications of clustering in some areas like
image segmentation, object and role recognition and data mining are highlighted. In this paper, we have presented a brief description of the surviving types of clustering approaches followed by a survey of the areas.
Performance analysis of efficient data distribution in P2P environment using hybrid clustering techniques
