In this paper, a new method for predicting sea levels employing self-organizing feature maps is introduced. For that purpose the maps are transformed from an unsupervised learning procedure to a supervised one. Two concepts, originally developed to solve the problems of convergence of other network types, are proposed to be applied to Kohonen networks: a functional relationship between the numb...

Self-organizing map (SOM) has been studied as a model of map formation in the brain cortex. However, the original model present several oversimplifications. For example, neurons in the cortex present a refractory period in which they are not able to be activated, restriction that should be included in the SOM if a better model is to be achieved. Although several modifications have been studied ...

Collaboration of growing self-organizing maps (GSOM) and adaptive resonance theory maps (ART) is considered through traveling sales-person problems (TSP).The ART is used to parallelize the GSOM: it divides the input space of city positions into subspaces automatically. One GSOM is allocated to each subspace and grows following the input data. After all the GSOMs grow sufficiently they are conne...

A Self-Organizing Map was used to classify the Reuters Corpus, by assigning a label to each of the documents that cluster to a specific node in the Self-Organizing Map. The predicted label is based on the most frequent label among the training documents attributed to that particular node. Experiments were carried out on different grid sizes (node numbers) to determine their influence on classif...

Three different auditory representations—Lyon’s cochlear model, Patterson’s gammatone filterbank combined with Meddis’ inner hair cell model, and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients—are analyzed in connection with self-organizing maps to evaluate their suitability for a perceptually justified classification of sounds. The self-organizing maps are trained with a uniform set of test sounds prepro...

Steel consumption is a critical factor affecting pricing decisions and a key element to achieve sustainable industrial development. Forecasting future trends of steel consumption based on analysis of nonlinear patterns using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques is the main purpose of this paper. Because there are several features affecting target variable which make the analysis of relations...

Self-organizing maps have been used extensively for condition-based maintenance, where quantization errors of test data referring to the self-organizing maps of healthy training data have been used as features. Researchers have used minimum quantization error as a health indicator, which is sensitive to noise in the training data. Some other researchers have used the average of the quantization...

Today's information age may be characterized by constant massive production and dissemination of written information. More powerful tools for exploring, searching, and organizing the available mass of information are needed to cope with this situation. In this context the map metaphor for displaying the contents of a document archive in a two-dimensional display has gained increased interest. I...

The self organizing map (SOM) is one of the popular clustering and data visualization algorithms and has evolved as a useful tool in pattern recognition, data mining since it was first introduced by Kohonen. However, it is observed that the magnification factor for such mappings deviates from the information-theoretically optimal value of 1 (for the SOM it is 2/3). This can be attributed to the...

We introduce a new type of Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to navigate in the Semantic Space of large text collections. We propose a “hyperbolic SOM” (HSOM) based on a regular tesselation of the hyperbolic plane, which is a non-euclidean space characterized by constant negative gaussian curvature. The exponentially increasing size of a neighborhood around a point in hyperbolic space provides more fre...