Since the second edition of this book came out in early 1997, the number of scientific papers published on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) has increased from about 1500 to some 4000. Also, two special workshops dedicated to the SOM have...

"Self-Organizing Maps: Second Edition" von Teuvo Kohonen ist ein umfassendes Werk über das Konzept und die Anwendung selbstorganisierender Karten (SOMs), einem wichtigen Verfahren im Bereich der künstlichen neuronalen Netze. Das Buch...

While the present edition is bibliographically the third one of Vol. 8 of the Springer Series in Information Sciences (IS 8), the book actually stems from Vol. 17 of the series Communication and Cybernetics (CC 17), entitled Associative...