Built on the principles of “Learning from Nature” and “Self-organization” Elastic Bunch Graph Matching for face recognition is a defining example for Organic Computing methodology. Here, we follow these principles further to advance the method in two respects. First, the requirement for manual annotation of landmarks is reduced to one single face, from which a self-organizing selection process ...

The self-organizing map (SOM) is a method that represents statistical data sets in an ordered fashion, as a natural groundwork on which the distributions of the individual indicators in the set can be displayed and analyzed. As a case study that instructs how to use the SOM to compare states of economic systems, the standard of living of different countries is analyzed using the SOM. Based on a...

Main memory is continuously improving both in price and capacity. With this comes new storage problems as well as new directions of usage. Just before the millennium, several main memory database systems are becoming commercially available. The hot areas include boosting the performance of web-enabled systems, such as search-engines, and auctioning systems. We present a novel data storage struc...