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Sensors 2009, 9, 3981-4004; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Multi-Objective Differential Evolution for Automatic Clustering with Application to Micro-Array Data Analysis 1 1 1 1 2 Kaushik Suresh , Debarati Kundu , Sayan Ghosh , Swagatam Das , Ajith Abraham and Sang Yong Han 3,* 1 Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; E-Mails: kaushik_s1988@; kundu.debarati@; sayan88tito@; swagatamdas19@yahoo.co.in 2 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; E-Mail: ajith.abraham@ 3 School of Computer Science and Engineering Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: hansy@cau.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-2-820- 5327; Fax: +82-2-825-6996 Received: 1 April 2009; in revised form: 19 May 2009 / Accepted: 22 May 2009 / Published: 25 May 2009 Abstract: This paper applies the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm to the task of automatic fuzzy clustering in a Multi-objective Optimization (MO) framework. It compares the performances of two multi-objective variants of DE over the fuzzy clustering problem, where two conflicting fuzzy validity indices are simultaneously optimized. The resultant Pareto optimal set of solutions from each algorithm consists of a number of non- domina