Advances in Self-Organizing Maps: 8th International Workshop, WSOM 2011, Espoo, Finland, June 13-15, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Topographic Mapping of Dissimilarity Data....Pages 1-15
Contextually Self-Organized Maps of Chinese Words....Pages 16-29
Assessing the Efficiency of Health Care Providers: A SOM Perspective....Pages 30-39
Fuzzy Clustering of the Self-Organizing Map: Some Applications on Financial Time Series....Pages 40-50
Self Organizing Maps as Models of Social Processes: The Case of Electoral Preferences....Pages 51-60
EnvSOM: A SOM Algorithm Conditioned on the Environment for Clustering and Visualization....Pages 61-70
Spectral Clustering as an Automated SOM Segmentation Tool....Pages 71-78
Sparse Functional Relevance Learning in Generalized Learning Vector Quantization....Pages 79-89
Relevance Learning in Unsupervised Vector Quantization Based on Divergences....Pages 90-100
Requirements for the Learning of Multiple Dynamics....Pages 101-110
Growing Graph Network Based on an Online Gaussian Mixture Model....Pages 111-120
Evolving a Self-Organizing Feature Map for Visual Object Tracking....Pages 121-130
Topographic Measure Based on External Criteria for Self-Organizing Map....Pages 131-140
Influence of Learning Rates and Neighboring Functions on Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 141-150
Gamma-Filter Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Time Series Analysis....Pages 151-159
Self-Organizing Maps of Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Situation in the World....Pages 160-167
Mining the City Data: Making Sense of Cities with Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 168-177
A Discussion on Visual Interactive Data Exploration Using Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 178-187
Design of a Structured 3D SOM as a Music Archive....Pages 188-197
A Novel Bioinformatics Strategy to Predict Directional Changes of Influenza A Virus Genome Sequences....Pages 198-206
Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model....Pages 207-217
Gaussian Selection Using Self-Organizing Map for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 218-227
Self Organizing Maps in NLP: Exploration of Coreference Feature Space....Pages 228-237
On Wires and Cables: Content Analysis of WikiLeaks Using Self-Organising Maps....Pages 238-246
Media Map: A Multilingual Document Map with a Design Interface....Pages 247-256
A New Label Maximization Based Incremental Neural Clustering Approach: Application to Text Clustering....Pages 257-266
A SOM-Based Analysis of Early Prosodic Acquisition of English by Brazilian Learners: Preliminary Results....Pages 267-276
A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction for Large Data Sets....Pages 277-287
Considering Spatialization Aspects When Positioning Input Vectors on Self-Organizing Map Output Grids....Pages 288-297
Aircraft Engine Fleet Monitoring Using Self-Organizing Maps and Edit Distance....Pages 298-307
Classification Using Topologically Preserving Spherical Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 308-317
Visualizing Patterns in the Air Quality in Mexico City with Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 318-327
Decision of Class Borders on a Spherical SOM with Non-equal Class Distributions....Pages 328-337
Analysing the Structure of Semantic Concepts in Visual Databases....Pages 338-347
Mapping of the 3D Objects Using Computer Generated Hologram SOM....Pages 348-356
Analysing the Similarity of Album Art with Self-Organising Maps....Pages 357-366
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