Self-organizing maps (SOMs) were developed by Teuvo Kohonen in the early eighties. Since then more than 10,000 works have been based on SOMs. SOMs are unsupervised neural networks useful for clustering and visualization purposes. Many SOM applications have been developed in engineering and science, and other fields.

This book contains refereed papers presented at the 9 th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM 2012) held at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, on December 12-14, 2012. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners in the field of self-organizing systems. Among the book chapters there are excellent examples of the use of SOMs in agriculture, computer science, data visualization, health systems, economics, engineering, social sciences, text and image analysis, and time series analysis. Other chapters present the latest theoretical work on SOMs as well as Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) methods.

Recent Research in Self-Organizing Maps Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps WSOM 2012 held 12-14 December 2012 in Santiago, Chile Written by leading experts in the field

Autorentext
José C. Principe is BellSouth Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Inhalt

Nonlinear Analysis and Time Series.- Text Mining and Language Processing.- Applications of Data Mining and Analysis.