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[23] Zhang C., Ouyang D., and Ning J., An Artificial Bee Colony Approach for Clustering, Expert Systems with Applications , vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 4761-4767, 2010. Fatemeh Boobord received the BS degree in applied mathematics from Islamic Azad University of Rasht Branch, Iran in 2005 and the MS degree in applied mathematics from Islamic Azad University of Lahijan Branch in 2010. She is PhD candidate in computer science at University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) from 2010. Her research interests are artificial intelligence, data mining and optimization, operation research, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Zalinda Othman received the BS degree in quality control and instrumentation from University Science Malaysia, Penang in 1994, and the MS degree in quality engineering, from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, in 1996 and the PhD degree in artificial intelligence from University Science Malaysia, Penang, in 2002. She is Head of Industry and Community Partnership in Faculty of Information Science and Technology at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, where she is currently an associate professor. Her main research topics are the study o f production optimization, artificial intelligence in manufacturing and data mining in production plannin g and control. Azuraliza Abu Bakar is a Professor in data mining at University Kebangsaan Malaysia. She received her PhD degree (artificial intelligence) from University Putra Malaysia in 2002. Her research interests are in time series data mining, outbreak detection and deviation detection model employing nature inspired computing techniques.