Abstract
Chicken Swarm Optimization (CSO) algorithm which is one of the most recently introduced optimization algorithms, simulates the intelligent foraging behaviour of chicken swarm. Data clustering is used in many disciplines and applications. It is an important tool and a descriptive task seeking to identify homogeneous groups of objects based on the values of their attributes. In this work, CSO is used for data clustering. The performance of the proposed CSO was assessed on several data sets and compared with well known and recent metaheuristic algorithm for clustering: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, Cuckoo Search (CS) and Bee Colony Algorithm (BC). The simulation results indicate that CSO algorithm have much potential and can efficiently be used for data clustering.