Table 3.

Setting for the illustrative datasets

Properties		Illustrative 1	Illustrative 2	Illustrative 3
Dataset	Data type	Real-valued
	Size	$100\times 100$
	Alphabet	[-100,100]
	Background	N(0,30)
Biclusters	Number	1	2	10
	Number of rows	50	50	U(3,12)
	Number of cols	50	50	U(10,20)
	Row Pattern	Constant	Constant	None
	Col Pattern	Constant	Constant	Order Preserving
	Contiguity	No	No	Yes
	Time Profile	None	None	Monotonically Decreasing
Overlapping	Plaid Coherency	No Overlapping	Additive	No Overlapping
	% of Overlapping biclusters	N.A	100 %	N.A
	Maximum number of bicluster interations	N.A	2	N.A
	% of overlapping elements	N.A	50 %	N.A
	% of overlapping rows	N.A	50 %	N.A
	% of overlapping columns	N.A	50 %	N.A
	Quality	No noise, errors or missing values