Advances in Self-Organizing Maps: 7th International Workshop, WSOM 2009, St. Augustine, FL, USA, June 8-10, 2009. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Batch-Learning Self-Organizing Map for Predicting Functions of Poorly-Characterized Proteins Massively Accumulated....Pages 1-9
Incremental Unsupervised Time Series Analysis Using Merge Growing Neural Gas....Pages 10-18
Clustering Hierarchical Data Using Self-Organizing Map: A Graph-Theoretical Approach....Pages 19-27
Time Series Clustering for Anomaly Detection Using Competitive Neural Networks....Pages 28-36
Fault Prediction in Aircraft Engines Using Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 37-44
Incremental Figure-Ground Segmentation Using Localized Adaptive Metrics in LVQ....Pages 45-53
Application of Supervised Pareto Learning Self Organizing Maps and Its Incremental Learning....Pages 54-62
Gamma SOM for Temporal Sequence Processing....Pages 63-71
Fuzzy Variant of Affinity Propagation in Comparison to Median Fuzzy c-Means....Pages 72-79
Clustering with Swarm Algorithms Compared to Emergent SOM....Pages 80-88
Cartograms, Self-Organizing Maps, and Magnification Control....Pages 89-97
Concept Mining with Self-Organizing Maps for the Semantic Web....Pages 98-106
ViSOM for Dimensionality Reduction in Face Recognition....Pages 107-115
Early Recognition of Gesture Patterns Using Sparse Code of Self-Organizing Map....Pages 116-123
Bag-of-Features Codebook Generation by Self-Organisation....Pages 124-132
On the Quantization Error in SOM vs. VQ: A Critical and Systematic Study....Pages 133-144
Approaching the Time Dependent Cocktail Party Problem with Online Sparse Coding Neural Gas....Pages 145-153
Career-Path Analysis Using Optimal Matching and Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 154-162
Network-Structured Particle Swarm Optimizer with Various Topology and Its Behaviors....Pages 163-171
Representing Semantic Graphs in a Self-Organizing Map....Pages 172-181
Analytic Comparison of Self-Organising Maps....Pages 182-190
Modeling the Bilingual Lexicon of an Individual Subject....Pages 191-199
Self-Organizing Maps with Non-cooperative Strategies (SOM-NC)....Pages 200-208
Analysis of Parliamentary Election Results and Socio-Economic Situation Using Self-Organizing Map....Pages 209-218
Line Image Classification by NG×SOM: Application to Handwritten Character Recognition....Pages 219-227
Self-Organization of Tactile Receptive Fields: Exploring Their Textural Origin and Their Representational Properties....Pages 228-236
Visualization by Linear Projections as Information Retrieval....Pages 237-245
Analyzing Domestic Violence with Topographic Maps: A Comparative Study....Pages 246-254
On the Finding Process of Volcano-Domain Ontology Components Using Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 255-263
Elimination of Useless Neurons in Incremental Learnable Self-Organizing Map....Pages 264-271
Hierarchical PCA Using Tree-SOM for the Identification of Bacteria....Pages 272-280
Optimal Combination of SOM Search in Best-Matching Units and Map Neighborhood....Pages 281-289
Sparse Linear Combination of SOMs for Data Imputation: Application to Financial Database....Pages 290-297
Towards Semi-supervised Manifold Learning: UKR with Structural Hints....Pages 298-306
Construction of a General Physical Condition Judgment System Using Acceleration Plethysmogram Pulse-Wave Analysis....Pages 307-315
Top-Down Control of Learning in Biological Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 316-324
Functional Principal Component Learning Using Oja’s Method and Sobolev Norms....Pages 325-333
A Computational Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering....Pages 334-343
The Exploration Machine – A Novel Method for Data Visualization....Pages 344-352
Generalized Self-Organizing Mixture Autoregressive Model....Pages 353-361
An SOM-Hybrid Supervised Model for the Prediction of Underlying Physical Parameters from Near-Infrared Planetary Spectra....Pages 362-371
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