Self-Organizing Maps

• Other Authors: K Matsopoulos, George (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2010
• Subjects: Data mining
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a neural network algorithm, which uses a competitive learning technique to train itself in an unsupervised manner. SOMs are different from other artificial neural networks in the sense that they use a neighborhood function to preserve the topological properties of th...