Abstract
Data and text clustering are popular and frequently used in the data mining domain, mainly to deal with big data analytics. The main problem in these techniques is finding the most coherent clusters allocating similar-related objects into one group. In this paper, an improved clustering analysis approach is proposed using an advanced optimization method called AOAOA. The proposed AOAOA method improved the Aquila optimizer (AO) search performance by the operators of the arithmetic optimization algorithms (AOA) and differential evolution (DE) and using a novel transition mechanism. The primary motivation for this modification is that the original optimizer suffers from local optima stagnation and lacks search balance. Thus, the proposed AOAOA overcame these shortcomings by integrating various powerful search strategies and a new update strategy. Experiments are conducted on two parts; eight standard data clustering datasets and ten text documents benchmark datasets to evaluate the performance of the proposed AOAOA method. The proposed method is compared against several well-known optimization algorithms and advanced state-of-the-art methods published in the literature. The data clustering results also showed promising performance for the proposed AOAOA compared to other comparative data clustering methods. Moreover, the results illustrated that the proposed AOAOA can find new best solutions for several different complicated cases as the text document clustering results. The proposed AOAOA got accurate and robust results compared to several state-of-the-art methods.