“…It has been proved that APC is a fast clustering algorithm especially in the case of a large number of samples, and has several advantages on speed, general applicability and good performance (Bodenhofer et al , 2011). So far, APC has been used successfully for microarray/gene expression data clustering (Frey and Dueck, 2007), sequence analysis (Yang et al , 2010), text clustering (Guan et al , 2010), data stream clustering (Zhang et al , 2013), vehicular ad hoc networks clustering (Hassanabadi et al , 2014), among others. Especially, for large data sets, APC offers obvious advantages over existing methods (e.g.…”