Support vector clustering (SVC) faces the same over-fitting problem as support vector machine (SVM) caused by outliers or
noises. Fuzzy support vector clustering (FSVC) algorithm is presented to deal with the problem. The membership model based
on k-NN is used to determine the membership value of training samples. The proposed fuzzy support vector clustering algorithm is
used to determine the clusters of some benchmark data sets. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm actually
reduces the effect of outliers and yields better clustering quality than SVC and traditional centroid-based hierarchical clustering
algorithm do.