Research Article

A Clustering-based Method for Business Hall Efficiency Analysis

Table 1

The notations used throughout this paper.

NotationRepresentation

The training set with points and dimensions
The data point
The -th clusters
The sum of squared errors
Denotes the -th cluster centroid
The number of data points in the -th cluster
Denotes the complexity of -means
A family of hash functions
The probability
The similarity between and
The maximum load of business hall
The proportion of a specific business
The average time to process the business
The number of business types
The ratio of actual daily load to maximum load
The working time
The number of staffs in the business hall
Represents the actual load during peak period of the business hall
The ratio of average load to the maximum load
The number of working days
The actual load trend
Denotes the actual load curve fitting function
A constant
The regression coefficient
The proportion of high-value business
The high-value business volume
The total business volume
The high-frequency load
The high threshold
The low threshold
Represent the current time
Represent the latest time
The low-frequency load
The latest high-load interval
The latest low-load interval
The copy training set
The size of training dataset
The minimum number data point in one cluster
The maximum distance in one cluster
A two-dimensional array
The nearest neighbor data
Calculate the similarity or distance between
The number of clusters
Distance between and
Conduct -means algorithm
The -th dataset
Represents the sum of rank, which better than the other
Opposite to
The tight and separative indicator
The XB index
Objective function
The quantitative value of factors
The weight