This work highlights issues that were not deeply investigated in
previous studies on clustering solutions, which have essential impacts
on performance in long-term real-world applications that are challenging
to detect instantly. Thus, we addressed these issues by proposing two
novel techniques: first, we expand the idea of clustering based on
centroids to multiple sub-centroids that assist assignment functions in
finding the optimal solution. In contrast to recent studies, we extended
the concept of gravitational force toward clustering solutions. Finally,
the introduced gap generation concept has been associated with these
techniques to support a superior clustering solution. Our model is
termed semi-supervised gravity clustering (SSGC). To demonstrate the
strength of SSGC, we consider multiple performance measurements besides
the traditional ones to validate the clustering models in various
scenarios. The experimental results show that SSGC outperforms baseline
models and successfully obtains the best performance of 30 different
domain datasets. Finally, our methodology code is already released.