8. WSOM 2011: Espoo, Finland
Jorma Laaksonen, Timo Honkela (Eds.): Advances in Self-Organizing Maps - 8th International Workshop, WSOM 2011, Espoo, Finland, June 13-15, 2011. Proceedings. Springer 2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-21565-0
Plenaries
Barbara Hammer, Andrej Gisbrecht, Alexander Hasenfuss, Bassam Mokbel, Frank-Michael Schleif, Xibin Zhu: Topographic Mapping of Dissimilarity Data. 1-15
Financial and Societal Applications
Marina Resta: Assessing the Efficiency of Health Care Providers: A SOM Perspective. 30-39
Peter Sarlin, Tomas Eklund: Fuzzy Clustering of the Self-Organizing Map: Some Applications on Financial Time Series. 40-50
Antonio Neme, Sergio Hernández, Omar Neme: Self Organizing Maps as Models of Social Processes: The Case of Electoral Preferences. 51-60
Theory and Methodology
Serafín Alonso, Mika Sulkava, Miguel A. Prada, Manuel Domínguez-González, Jaakko Hollmén: EnvSOM: A SOM Algorithm Conditioned on the Environment for Clustering and Visualization. 61-70
Kadim Tasdemir: Spectral Clustering as an Automated SOM Segmentation Tool. 71-78
Thomas Villmann, Marika Kästner: Sparse Functional Relevance Learning in Generalized Learning Vector Quantization. 79-89
Marika Kästner, Andreas Backhaus, Tina Geweniger, Sven Haase, Udo Seiffert, Thomas Villmann: Relevance Learning in Unsupervised Vector Quantization Based on Divergences. 90-100
Takashi Ohkubo, Tetsuo Furukawa, Kazuhiro Tokunaga: Requirements for the Learning of Multiple Dynamics. 101-110
Kazuhiro Tokunaga: Growing Graph Network Based on an Online Gaussian Mixture Model. 111-120
José Everardo Bessa Maia, Guilherme De A. Barreto, André Luís Vasconcelos Coelho: Evolving a Self-Organizing Feature Map for Visual Object Tracking. 121-130
Ken-ichi Fukui, Masayuki Numao: Topographic Measure Based on External Criteria for Self-Organizing Map. 131-140
Pavel Stefanovic, Olga Kurasova: Influence of Learning Rates and Neighboring Functions on Self-Organizing Maps. 141-150
Pablo A. Estévez, Rodrigo Hernández: Gamma-Filter Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Time Series Analysis. 151-159
Applications of Data Mining and Analysis
Yasir Mehmood, Mudassar Abbas, Xi Chen, Timo Honkela: Self-Organizing Maps of Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Situation in the World. 160-167
Omar Neme, J. R. G. Pulido, Antonio Neme: Mining the City Data: Making Sense of Cities with Self-Organizing Maps. 168-177
Julia Moehrmann, Andre Burkovski, Evgeny Baranovskiy, Geoffrey-Alexeij Heinze, Andrej Rapoport, Gunther Heidemann: A Discussion on Visual Interactive Data Exploration Using Self-Organizing Maps. 178-187
Yuki Iwasaki, Ken-nosuke Wada, Masae Itoh, Toshimichi Ikemura, Takashi Abe: A Novel Bioinformatics Strategy to Predict Directional Changes of Influenza A Virus Genome Sequences. 198-206
Language Processing and Document Analysis
Uli Grasemann, Chaleece Sandberg, Swathi Kiran, Risto Miikkulainen: Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model. 207-217
Yujun Wang, Hugo Van hamme: Gaussian Selection Using Self-Organizing Map for Automatic Speech Recognition. 218-227
Andre Burkovski, Wiltrud Kessler, Gunther Heidemann, Hamidreza Kobdani, Hinrich Schütze: Self Organizing Maps in NLP: Exploration of Coreference Feature Space. 228-237
Rudolf Mayer, Andreas Rauber: On Wires and Cables: Content Analysis of WikiLeaks Using Self-Organising Maps. 238-246
Timo Honkela, Jorma Laaksonen, Hannele Törrö, Juhani Tenhunen: Media Map: A Multilingual Document Map with a Design Interface. 247-256
Jean-Charles Lamirel, Raghvendra Mall, Shadi Al Shehabi, Ghada Safi: A New Label Maximization Based Incremental Neural Clustering Approach: Application to Text Clustering. 257-266
Ana Cristina C. Silva, Ana Cristina P. Macedo, Guilherme De A. Barreto: A SOM-Based Analysis of Early Prosodic Acquisition of English by Brazilian Learners: Preliminary Results. 267-276
Visualization and Image Processing
Barbara Hammer, Michael Biehl, Kerstin Bunte, Bassam Mokbel: A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction for Large Data Sets. 277-287
Tonio Fincke: Considering Spatialization Aspects When Positioning Input Vectors on Self-Organizing Map Output Grids. 288-297
Etienne Côme, Marie Cottrell, Michel Verleysen, Jérôme Lacaille: Aircraft Engine Fleet Monitoring Using Self-Organizing Maps and Edit Distance. 298-307
Heizo Tokutaka, Masaaki Ohkita, Ying Hai, Kikuo Fujimura, Matashige Oyabu: Classification Using Topologically Preserving Spherical Self-Organizing Maps. 308-317
Antonio Neme, Leticia Hernández: Visualizing Patterns in the Air Quality in Mexico City with Self-Organizing Maps. 318-327
Nobuo Matsuda, Heizo Tokutaka: Decision of Class Borders on a Spherical SOM with Non-equal Class Distributions. 328-337
Mats Sjöberg, Jorma Laaksonen: Analysing the Structure of Semantic Concepts in Visual Databases. 338-347
Hiroshi Dozono, Asami Tanaka, Shinya Nishijima, Hiroshi Tsukizi, Masanori Nakakuni: Mapping of the 3D Objects Using Computer Generated Hologram SOM. 348-356
Rudolf Mayer: Analysing the Similarity of Album Art with Self-Organising Maps. 357-366



