“…GAs are search procedures that use the mechanics of evolution and natural genetics. They have been earlier reported for the clustering problem (Lucasius et al, 1993;Murthy and Chowdhury, 1996;Scheunders, 1997;Estivill-Castro and Murray, 1997;Falkenauer, 1998;Hall et al, 1999;Krishna, 1999;Maulik and Bandyopadhyay, 2000;Bandyopadhyay and Maulik, 2000;Hruschka and Nelson, 2003;Yi, 2004). However, they may take a large amount of time to converge and/or assume the number of clusters to be fixed a priori.…”