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• TITLE: Distributed C-Means Algorithm for Big Data Image Segmentation on a Massively Parallel and Distributed Virtual Machine Based on Cooperative Mobile Agents

  AUTHORS: Fatéma Zahra Benchara, Mohamed Youssfi, Omar Bouattane, Hassan Ouajji, Mohammed Ouadi Bensalah

  KEYWORDS: Multi-Agent System, Distributed Algorithm, Big Data Image Segmentation, MRI Image, C-Means Algorithm, Mobile Agent

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol.8 No.3, March 3, 2015

  ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to present a distributed algorithm for big data classification, and its application for Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) segmentation. We choose the well-known classification method which is the c-means method. The proposed method is introduced in order to perform a cognitive program which is assigned to be implemented on a parallel and distributed machine based on mobile agents. The main idea of the proposed algorithm is to execute the c-means classification procedure by the Mobile Classification Agents (Team Workers) on different nodes on their data at the same time and provide the results to their Mobile Host Agent (Team Leader) which computes the global results and orchestrates the classification until the convergence condition is achieved and the output segmented images will be provided from the Mobile Classification Agents. The data in our case are the big data MRI image of size (m × n) which is splitted into (m × n) elementary images one per mobile classification agent to perform the classification procedure. The experimental results show that the use of the distributed architecture improves significantly the big data segmentation efficiency.