Kohonen Maps

Samuel Kaski received the DSc (PhD) degree in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in 1997. He is currently a Professor at Aalto University, the Director of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Director of Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN. He is an action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, and has chaired several conferences including AISTATS 2014. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and supervised 18 PhD theses. His current research interests include statistical machine learning, computational biology and medicine, information visualization, and exploratory information retrieval.

Selected papers only.Preface: Kohonen Maps. Table of contents. Analyzing and representing multidimentional quantitative and qualitative data: Demographic study of the Rhône valley. The domeatic consumption of the Canadian families. (M. Cottrell, P. Gaubert, P. Letremy, P. Rousset). Value maps: Finding value in markets that are expensive (G.J. Deboeck). Data mining and knowledge discovery with emergent Self-Organizing Feature Maps for multivariate time series (A. Ultsch). Tree structured Self-Organizing Maps (P. Koikkalainen). On the optimization of Self-Organizing Maps by genetic algorithms (D. Polani). Self organization of a massive text document collection (T. Kohonen, S. Kaski, K. Lagus, J. Salojárvi, J. Honkela, V. Paatero, A. Saarela). Document classification with Self-Organizing Maps (D. Merkl). Navigation in databases using Self-Organizing Maps (S.A. Shumsky). Self-Organising Maps in computer aided design of electronic circuits (A. Hemani, A. Postula). Modeling self-organization in the visual cortex (R. Miikkulainen, J.A. Bednar, Y. Choe, J. Sirosh). A spatio-temporal memory based on SOMs with activity diffusion (N.R. Euliano, J.C. Principe). Advances in modeling cortical maps (P.G. Morasso, V. Sanguineti, F. Frisone). Topology preservation in Self-Organizing Maps (T. Villmann). Second-order learing in Self-Organizing Maps (R. Der, M. Herrmann). Energy functions for Self-Organizing Maps (T. Heskes). LVQ and single trial EEG classification (G. Pfurtscheller, M. Pregenzer). Self-Organizing Map in categorization of voice qualities (L. Leinonen). Self-Organizing Map in analysis of large-scale industrial systems (O. Simula, J. Ahola, E. Alhoniemi, J. Himberg, J. Vesanto). Keyword index.