In the knowledge management field, knowledge map created under the client-server architecture has been widely used to direct the knowledge sharing process. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture has been practicable for file sharing, distributed computing, instant messaging, etc. by virtue of the increases of Internet bandwidth and personal computer capability. P2P architecture attracts researchers an...

Spatial hypertext systems use physical properties as color, dimensions, and position to represent relationships between documents. These systems allows the user to express a lot of different relationships between information but the structure should be build by hand by the user. This can be complex if a large number of information is involved. Self-organizing neural networks map can automatical...

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a popular algorithm to analyze the structure of a dataset. However, some topological constraints of the SOM are fixed before the learning and may not be relevant regarding to the data structure. In this paper we propose to improve the SOM performance with a new algorithm which learn the topological constraints of the map using data structure information. Experim...

Self-Organizing Map and Growing Self-Organizing Map are widely used techniques for exploratory data analysis. The key desirable features of these techniques are applicability to real world data sets and the ability to visualize high dimensional data in low dimensional output space. One of the core problems of using SOM/GSOM based techniques on large datasets is the high processing time requirem...

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM ) is a popular unsupervised neural network able to provide effective clustering and data visualization for data represented in multidimensional input spaces. In this paper we describe Fast Learning SOM (FLSOM ) which adopts a learning algorithm that improves the performance of the standard SOM with respect to the convergence time in the training phase. We show that ...

The self-organizing map (SOM) is a nonlinear unsupervised method for vector quantization. In the context of classification and data analysis, the SOM technique highlights the neighbourhood structure between clusters. The correspondence between this clustering and the input proximity is called the topology preservation. We present here a stochastic method based on bootstrapping in order to incre...

Self-Organizing Map is an unsupervised neural network which combines vector quantization and vector projection. This makes it a powerful visualization tool. SOM Toolbox implements the SOM in the Matlab 5 computing environment. In this paper, computational complexity of SOM and the applicability of the Toolbox are investigated. It is seen that the Toolbox is easily applicable to small data sets ...

We present a novel system for automatically marking up text documents into XML and discuss the benefits of XML markup for intelligent information retrieval. The system uses the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm to arrange XML marked-up documents on a twodimensional map so that similar documents appear closer to each other. It then employs an inductive learning algorithm C5 to automatically ex...

A method for discrimination and classification of breast cancer dataset with benign and malignant tissues is proposed using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Self Organizing Map (SOM). The method implement ICA for preprocessing and data reduction and SOM for data analysis. The best performance was obtained with ICASOM, resulting in 98.8% classification accuracy and a SOM result is 94.9%.

In this paper we test the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) on the problem of predicting chaotic time-series (speciically Mackey-Glass series) with local linear models deened separately for each of the prototype vectors of the SOM. We see that the method achieves good results. This together with the capabilities of the SOM make it a valuable tool in exploratory data mining.