Download or read book Applications of Self-Organizing Maps written by Magnus Johnsson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-organizing map, first described by the Finnish scientist Teuvo Kohonen, can by applied to a wide range of fields. This book is about such applications, i.e. how the original self-organizing map as well as variants and extensions of it can be applied in different fields. In fourteen chapters, a wide range of such applications is discussed. To name a few, these applications include the analysis of financial stability, the fault diagnosis of plants, the creation of well-composed heterogeneous teams and the application of the self-organizing map to the atmospheric sciences.