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The present research describes an approach to radar pulse separation through a set of state-of-the-art cluster validity indices in association with fuzzy-based representation. Detection of a number of radars during the separation process is an important applicable issue, which needs to be investigated more in both real and academic environments. It is obvious that the fuzzy-based clustering approach may be known as one of the intelligent solutions regarding the interleaved radar pulse separation. In a word, the study considers the optimal number of clusters on the basis of the cluster validity indices that are useful to determine the radars. To consider the performance of the proposed approach, the whole of cluster validity indices are simulated though a series of experiments in some applicable scenarios in the area of interleaved radar pulse separation. The outcomes indicate that W-index is known as a suitable candidate to guarantee the better performance with high accuracy, while the fuzzy c-means technique is realized. In fact, a purposeful integration of the fuzzy c-means in association with W-index aims us to separate the interleaved radar pulse trains, efficiently. Subsequently, the effectiveness of the approach performance is verified by demonstrating its accuracy to be resulted as 96.71 %, while 10 % of additional pulse and 2 % of noise are included.
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The corresponding Author would like to appreciate respected Editor-in-Chiefs and also respected Associate Editor of ‘Evolving Systems’, Springer Publisher for giving the opportunity to improve the research. Moreover, the impressive, desirable, constructive and technical comments of the whole of respected potential anonymous reviewers in all the rounds of processing are greatly appreciated. Afterwards, Dr. Mazinan is highly grateful to the Islamic Azad University (IAU), South Tehran Brach, Tehran, Iran in support of the present research, which is carried out under contract with the Research Department of the IAU, South Tehran Brach. And also he appreciates Mrs. Maryam Aghaei Sarchali, Miss Mohadeseh Mazinan and finally Mr. Mohammad Mazinan for their sufficient supports in the process of paper investigation and organization.
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Mazinan, A.H. On cluster validity indices with its application to interleaved radar pulse separation through fuzzy-based representation. Evolving Systems 7, 243–254 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-015-9136-2
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