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The first centroid is the document having the minimum standard deviation of its term frequency. Each of the other subsequent centroids is selected based on the dissimilarities of the previously selected centroids. For comparing the performance of the proposed DIC-DOC- K-means algorithm, the results of the K-means, K-means++ and weighted average of terms-based initial centroid selection\u2009+\u2009 K-means (Weight_Avg_Initials\u2009+\u2009 K-means) clustering algorithms are considered. The results show that the proposed DIC-DOC- K-means algorithm performs significantly better than the K-means, K-means++\u2009and Weight_Avg_Initials+\u2009 K-means clustering algorithms for Reuters-21578 and WebKB with respect to purity, entropy and F-measure for most of the cluster sizes. The cluster sizes used for Reuters-8 are 8, 16, 24 and 32 and those for WebKB are 4, 8, 12 and 16. 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