It is a critical problem for the clustering analysis techniques to select the appropriate value of parameters. Meanwhile,
the clustering algorithms lack the effective mechanism to detect outliers while treating outliers as “noise”. By regarding
outliers as valuable information, the paper proposes a novel hierarchical clustering algorithm that integrates a new outlier-mining
method. The algorithm stops clustering according to the dissimilarity reflected by the detected outliers and needs only one
parameter, whose appropriate value can be decided in the outlier mining process. After discussing some related topics, the
paper adopts 5 real-life datasets to evaluate the performance of the clustering algorithm in outlier mining and clustering
and compare it with other algorithms.
Keywords Clustering - Outlier Mining - Auto Stop