Self-Organizing Maps

Berlin: Springer, 2001. 3rd ed. Orange octavo with black text and white stripes; xx, 501 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Near fine; clean and bright with tight binding; wraps show faint signs of wear/peeling, mostly to edges. Paperback. ISBN: 9783540679219, 3540679219

Since the second edition of this book came out in early 1997, the number of scientific papers published on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) has increased from about 1500 to some 4000.Contents: 1. Mathematical Preliminaries.- 2. Neural Modeling.- 3. The Basic SOM.- 4. Physiological Interpretation of SOM.- 5. Variants of SOM.- 6. Learning Vector Quantization.- 7. Applications.- 8. Software Tools for SOM.- 9. Hardware for SOM.- 10. An Overview of SOM Literature.- 11. Glossary of “Neural” Terms.- References..