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Table 4 Table of notations in this research

From: Cost-effective land cover classification for remote sensing images

Notation

Defination

m

The mth iteration during the clustering process

x

A d-dimensional data point

\(x_i\)

The ith d-dimensional data point in cluster x

\(c_j\)

The d-dimensional center of the cluster j

\(u_{ij}\)

The degree of membership of \(x_j\) in the cluster j

\(\mathcal {J}_m\)

The objective function at the mth iteration

\(P_i\)

The ith partition during the clustering process

\(Rand(P_1,P_2)\)

The Rand Index of two partitions \(P_1\) and \(P_2\)

\(\mathcal {L}_m\)

The predicted labels at the mth iteration

\(r_m\)

The accuracy at the m iteration

\(\Delta {\mathcal {J}_m}\)

The change rate of \(\mathcal {J}_m\)

\(\bar{r}\)

The desired accuracy (e.g., 85%, 90%, 95%, etc.)

\(\Delta \bar{\mathcal {J}}\)

The predicted objective function given the \(\bar{r}\)

\(\text {Cost}_{\text {comp}}\)

The computation cost in the cloud

\(\text {Price}_{\text {unit}}\)

The unit price

\({T}_{\text {comp}}\)

Total computation time

\({T}_{\text {train}}\)

The time taken in the training process

\(T_{\text {actual}}\)

The early-stop computation time in the clustering

\({T}_\textit{total}\)

The computation time for achieving 100% accuracy

\(\text {Cost}_{\text {effective}}\)

The cost-effectiveness percentage