WSOM'97:
WORKSHOP ON
SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS

Helsinki University of Technology,
Finland, June 4-6, 1997


What's new
June, 10 Ordering instructions for the WSOM'97 proceedings
June, 3

Alternative index to the workshop
May, 19 Additional travel information
Social program
SOM clinic
May, 6 Author information on talks and posters
Opportunity to put up demonstrations
April, 11 Workshop program
Reminder for authors on submission of postscript file by May 1
February, 20 Registration and accommodation
Registration Scientific Program Social Program Traveling Author information

BACKGROUND

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with its variations is the most popular artificial neural network algorithm in the unsupervised learning category. Over 2000 applications have been reported in the open literature, and more and more industrial projects are using the SOM as a tool for solving hard real-world problems.

WORKSHOP

The WORKSHOP ON SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS (WSOM'97) is the first international meeting to be solely dedicated to the theory and applications of the SOM. People from universities, research institutes, industry, and commerce are invited to join the Workshop and share their views and expertise on the use of the SOM.

Highlights of the program:

TUTORIAL
SHORT COURSE		prof. Teuvo Kohonen
PLENARIESprof. Helge Ritter:
Learning with the parameterized self-organizing map
prof. Karl Goser:
Self-organizing map for intelligent process control
prof. Marie Cottrell:
Theoretical aspects of the SOM algorithm
INVITED TALKSprof. Risto Miikkulainen:
SOM research in the USA
prof. Heizo Tokutaka:
Condensed review of SOM and LVQ research in Japan
SESSIONSPattern recognition and signal processing
Optimization
Monitoring and data mining
Financial analysis
Temporal sequence processing
Image analysis and vision
Theory and extensions
Probabilistic interpretations
Text and document maps
Hardware
PANELDocument search
SOM CLINICDiscuss the algorithms with SOM experts
DEMONSTRATIONS 
BANQUETDinner speech by Robert Hecht-Nielsen:
A neural network saga

See also the Call for Participation.

SOM CLINIC

The SOM clinic will be open in the lobby of the workshop site during lunch and coffee breaks, as well as during the Ice-Breaking Party and the poster and demo sessions.

In the SOM clinic the workshop attendants can discuss the algorithms with SOM experts, and also get help in their problems. Several SOM experts, including some of the top researchers of the area, will be present in the clinic during the breaks.

DEMONSTRATIONS

Participants wishing to demonstrate their SOM-based method or tool, or to present a last-minute poster (not to be included in the official program or in the proceedings) are asked to contact wsom97-demos@nucleus.hut.fi for details. A fee is charged from companies, but academic research groups may demonstrate for free.

CO-OPERATING SOCIETIES

This is a satellite workshop of the 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA) to be held on June 9 to 11 in Lappeenranta, Finland, arranged by the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. Other co-operating societies are the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), IEEE Finland Section, and the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society.

NEURONET SPONSORSHIP

NEuroNet will be sponsoring 10 EU students to attend WSOM'97. Details on the application procedure are available on NEuroNet's page.

GENERAL CHAIRMAN

Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

PROGRAM CHAIRMAN

Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

ORGANIZATION CHAIRMAN

Olli Simula, Helsinki University of Technology

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

Jukka Iivarinen, Treasurer
Timo Honkela, Publicity coordinator
Krista Lagus, WWW coordinator

For further information, please contact wsom97@nucleus.hut.fi

Registration Scientific Program Social Program Traveling Author information

Last modified: Fri May 16 13:45:07 EET DST 1997