WSOM'97 Program

Wednesday, June 4 Thursday, June 5 Friday, June 6
 











14:00-17:00Tutorial Short Course
Teuvo Kohonen
17:30-19:00Ice Breaking Party
8:30-8:50Opening
8:50-9:50Plenary I
Helge Ritter
9:50-10:15 Break
10:15-12:15Session F1:
Pattern recognition and signal processing
Session G1:
Monitoring and data mining
 Lunch
13:30-14:30Plenary II
Karl Goser
14:30-15:10Session F2:
Optimization and Poster spotlights
Session G2:
Hardware and Poster spotlights
15:10-16:20Poster and Demo Session
16:20-17:40Session F3:
Temporal sequence processing
Session G3:
Image analysis and vision
18:00 - Banquet
Dinner speech: Robert Hecht-Nielsen
8:30-9:30Plenary III
Marie Cottrell
9:30-9:50Break
9:50-12:00Session F4:
Invited session

Session F5:
Theory and extensions

 
Session G4:
Text and document maps
Session G5:
Invited session
 Lunch
13:00-14:10Panel:
Document search
14:10-15:10Session F6:
Probabilistic interpretations
Session G6:
Financial analysis








WSOM'97 Scientific Program




WEDNESDAY, June 4

Tutorial Short Course (14:00-17:00, room G)
Self-organizing maps: state-of-the-art
Teuvo Kohonen - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


THURSDAY, June 5

Opening (8:30-8:50, room G)
Teuvo Kohonen

Plenary session I (8:50-9:50, room G)
Chairperson: Teuvo Kohonen, Finland

Learning with the parameterized self-organizing map
Helge Ritter - University of Bielefeld, Germany


Session F1: Pattern recognition and signal processing (10:15-12:15, room F)
Chairpersons: Helge Ritter, Germany; Dieter Merkl, Austria
Self-organizing maps of symbol strings with application to speech recognition
Teuvo Kohonen and Panu Somervuo - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

SOM based density function approximation for mixture density HMMs
Mikko Kurimo - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Modelling and data analysis of multisensor systems with the self-organizing map: application to the electronic nose
Corrado Di Natale and Arnaldo D'Amico - University of Rome, Italy

Neural detection of QAM signal with strongly nonlinear receiver
Kimmo Raivio - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Jukka Henriksson - Nokia Research Center, Finland, Olli Simula - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Self-organization and segmentation with laterally connected maps of spiking neurons
Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen - The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Local subspace classifier and local subspace SOM
Jorma Laaksonen - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


Session G1: Monitoring and data mining (10:15-12:15, room G)
Chairpersons: Karl Goser, Germany; Heizo Tokutaka, Japan
The use of neural networks in marketing: market segmentation with self organising feature maps
Sara Dolnicar - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

New approaches of process visualization and analysis in power plants
Ralf Otte - ABB Kraftwerksleittechnik, Germany, Karl Goser - University of Dortmund, Germany

Using the SOM in supporting diabetes therapy
Mikko Mäkipää - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Pekka Heinonen - Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland, Erkki Oja - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Scaling and sensitivity in appraisal
Eero Carlson - National Land Survey of Finland

CorDex: a knowledge discovery tool
Robert Leivian, William Peterson and Mike Gardner - Motorola, USA

The neural data analysis environment
Erkki Häkkinen and Pasi Koikkalainen - University of Jyväskylä, Finland


Plenary session II (13:30-14:30, room G)
Chairperson: Olli Simula, Finland
Self-organizing map for intelligent process control
Karl Goser - University of Dortmund, Germany

Session F2: Optimization and Poster spotlights (14:30-15:10, room F)
Chairpersons: Visa Koivunen, Finland; Jukka Heikkonen, Finland
The optimization for TSP using SOM method of many cities, for example 532 cities in USA
Kikuo Fujimura, Heizo Tokutaka, Shin-ichi Tanaka, Takatoshi Maeno, and Satoru Kishida - Tottori University, Japan

Poster spotlights (2 minutes each):

A hierarchical self-organizing map for classification problems
Bart De Ketelaere, Dimitrios Moshou and Peter Coucke - K.U. Leuven, Belgium

An angular quantising self organising map for scale invariant classification
Stephen McGlinchey and Colin Fyfe - University of Paisley, UK

Self-organizing maps for independent component analysis
Petteri Pajunen and Juha Karhunen - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Projection pursuits in SOM classifiers
V. Chandrasekaran and Zhi-Qiang Liu - University of Melbourne, Australia

Alternative ways for cluster visualization in self-organizing maps
Dieter Merkl and Andreas Rauber - Technical University of Vienna, Austria

On the merits of topography in neural maps
Michael Herrmann - Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Germany

Comparison of a Bayesian SOM with the EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures
Hujun Yin and Nigel M. Allinson - UMIST, UK

Minimum description length (MDL) principle and self-organizing maps
Heikki Hyötyniemi - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

A modular approach to implementation of the self-organising map
N. Lightowler, C.T. Spracklen, and A.R. Allen - University of Aberdeen, UK


Session G2: Hardware and Poster spotlights (14:30-15:10, room G)
Chairpersons: Pasi Koikkalainen, Finland; Krista Lagus, Finland
SOM hardware-accelerator
S. Rüping, M. Porrman and U. Rückert - University of Paderborn, Germany

Poster spotlights (2 minutes each):

Data parallel simulation of self-organizing maps on hypercube architectures
Erich Schikuta and Claus Weidmann - University of Vienna, Austria

Object localisation in 2d images using a temporal Kohonen network
H.M. Lakany and G.M. Hayes - University of Edinburgh, UK

MuSeq recurrent oscillatory self-organizing map. Classification and entrainment of temporal feature spaces
Mauri Kaipainen - Indiana University, USA, Pantelis Papadopoulos - Indiana University, USA, Pasi Karhu - University of Helsinki, Finland

Classification of human blood plasma lipid abnormalities by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and self-organizing maps
Yrjö Hiltunen - The Raahe Institute of Computer Engineering, Finland, Jouni Kaartinen - The Raahe Institute of Computer Engineering, Finland, Mika Ala-Korpela - University of Kuopio, Finland

Coordinate-free representation of sensorimotor spaces
Francesco Frisone, Pietro G. Morasso, Vittorio Sanguineti - University of Genova, Italy

WarpNet: self-organizing time warping
Kari Torkkola - Motorola, USA

Dynamic neighbourhoods in self organizing maps
Jean-Jacques Mariage - Paris 8 University, France

Extended self-organizing maps with local linear mappings for function approximation and system identification
Dimitrios Moshou and Herman Ramon - K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Self organizing evolutionary models in financial markets forecasting
Marina Resta - Genova University, Italy


Poster and demo session (15:10-16:20, Lobby)

Session F3: Temporal sequence processing (16:20-17:40, room F)
Chairpersons: Thomas Martinez, Germany; Jari Kangas, Finland
The adaptive-subspace self-organizing map (ASSOM)
Teuvo Kohonen, Samuel Kaski, Harri Lappalainen, and Jarkko Salojärvi - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Context learning with the self organizing map
Markus Varsta and Jukka Heikkonen - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Jose del R. Millan - Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

Local linear correlation analysis with the SOM
Antonio Piras and Alain Germond - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Using the SOM and local models in time-series prediction
Juha Vesanto - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


Session G3: Image analysis and vision (16:20-17:40, room G)
Chairpersons: Risto Miikkulainen, USA; Jouko Lampinen, Finland
Application of a growing self-organizing map to thinning of binary characters with noise
Igor Farkas and Lucius Chudy - Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Towards self-organized feature maps from Gabor filter responses
James Orwell - Kings College London, UK, Ramón Turnes, María José Carreira and Diego Cabello - Univ. Santiago, Spain, James Boyce - Kings College London, UK

TEXSOM: A new architecture for texture segmentation
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar - Fraunhofer-Institut IPK Berlin, Germany

Analysis of SOM-based models for the development of visual maps
H.-U. Bauer - MPI Strömungsforschung, Germany, M. Riesenhuber - MIT, USA, D. Brockmann and T. Geisel - MPI Strömungsforschung, Germany


Banquet and dinner speech (18:00 - 22:30, Fortress Island of Suomenlinna)
A neural network saga
Robert Hecht-Nielsen - HNC Software Inc. and UCSD, USA


FRIDAY, June 6

Plenary session III (8:30-9:30, room G)
Chairperson: Erkki Oja, Finland
Theoretical aspects of the SOM algorithm
Marie Cottrell - Univ. Paris I, France

Session F4: Invited session (9:50-10:20, room F)
Chairpersons: Marie Cottrell, France; Heikki Hyötyniemi, Finland
SOM research in the USA
Risto Miikkulainen - The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Session F5: Theory and extensions (10:20-12:00, room F)
Chairpersons: Marie Cottrell, France; Heikki Hyötyniemi, Finland
Self-organisation in the one-dimensional SOM with a reduced width neighbourhood
John A. Flanagan - Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Switzerland

A comparison of topography measures for neural maps
M. Herrmann and H.-U. Bauer - Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Germany, Th. Villmann - Universität Leipzig, Germany

Organization measures for self-organizing maps
Daniel Polani - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

The GSOM-algorithm for growing hypercubical output spaces in self-organizing maps
Thomas Villmann - University Leipzig, Germany, H.-U. Bauer - Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Germany

Two more modifications of SOMs to handle signals with special properties
Stefan Schuenemann, Udo Seiffert, Bernd Michaelis - Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany


Session G4: Text and document maps (10:00-11:20, room G)
Chairpersons: Xia Lin, USA; Barbro Back, Finland
Comparisons of self-organized word category maps
Timo Honkela - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Experiments on distributional categorization of lexical items with self organizing maps
Gilles Bernard - Paris 8 University, France

WEBSOM - self-organizing maps of document collections
Timo Honkela, Samuel Kaski, Krista Lagus, and Teuvo Kohonen - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Lessons learned in text document classification
Dieter Merkl - Technische Universität Wien, Austria


Session G5: Invited session (11:20-11:50, room G)
Chairpersons: Xia Lin, USA; Barbro Back, Finland
Condensed review of SOM and LVQ research in Japan
Heizo Tokutaka - Tottori University, Japan


Panel: Document search (13:00-14:10, room G)

Participants:

Robert Hecht-Nielsen, USA
Timo Honkela, Finland
Xia Lin, USA
Dieter Merkl, Austria
Jakub Zavrel, Netherlands

Session F6: Probabilistic interpretations (14:10-15:10, room F)
Chairpersons: Nigel Allinson, UK; Ari Hämäläinen, Finland
Magnification factors for the SOM and GTM algorithms
Christopher M. Bishop, Markus Svensen, and Christopher K. I. Williams - Aston University, UK

Self organizing map, a probabilistic approach
F. Anouar and F. Badran - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CEDRIC), France, S. Thiria - Université de Paris, France

Deterministic annealing for topographic vector quantization and self-organizing maps
Thore Graepel, Matthias Burger, and Klaus Obermayer - Technical University of Berlin, Germany


Session G6: Financial analysis (14:10-15:10, room G)
Chairpersons: Guido Deboeck, USA; Samuel Kaski, Finland
Neural network analysis of Russian banks
S. A. Shumsky and A. V. Yarovoy - Lebedev Physics Institute, Russia

Analyzing financial performance with self-organizing maps
Barbro Back - Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, Kaisa Sere - Åbo Akademi University, Finland, Hannu Vanharanta - Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Analyzing financial statements with the self-organizing map
Kimmo Kiviluoto - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Pentti Bergius - Kera Ltd., Finland


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