LINGUIST List 8.533

Thu Apr 17 1997

Confs: Self-organizing maps

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1. Timo Honkela, Self-organizing maps

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 W O R K S H O P O N S E L F - O R G A N I Z I N G M A P S

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

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 http://nucleus.hut.fi/wsom97/

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WSOM'97 is the first international meeting to be entirely dedicated
to the theory and applications of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM).
The SOM is a new powerful software tool for hard real-world
problems listed below. Highlights of the program:

 - TUTORIAL SHORT COURSE: prof. Teuvo Kohonen

 - PLENARIES: prof. 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: prof. Risto Miikkulainen: SOM research in the USA

 prof. Heizo Tokutaka: Condensed review of SOM and
 LVQ research in Japan

 - SESSIONS: Pattern recognition and Optimization
 signal processing

 Monitoring and data mining Financial analysis

 Temporal sequence processing Image analysis and vision

 Theory and extensions Probabilistic
 interpretations

 Text and document maps Hardware

 - PANEL: Document search

 - SOM CLINIC: Practical advice is given during the breaks

 - BANQUET: Dinner speech by Robert Hecht-Nielsen:
 A neural network saga

 - DEMONSTRATIONS


WSOM'97 is a unique occasion for anyone who

 - is looking for efficient means for analyzing and visualizing
 complex real-world data, or

 - wishes to gain new insight into the newest applications of the SOM.


REGISTRATION

General registration fee is FIM 1200 for the workshop and FIM 700
for the tutorial. Reduced registration fees are available for
students as well as for early registration before May 1.

Please see http://nucleus.hut.fi/wsom97/ for the program.
On the page there is also information on the registration,
accomodation, travel, and other practical arrangements.
For further information, please contact wsom97nucleus.hut.fi


CO-OPERATING SOCIETIES

WSOM'97 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.


Teuvo Kohonen, WSOM'97 Chairman

Erkki Oja, Program Chairman

Olli Simula, Organization Chairman