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As a special class of artificial neural networks the Self Organizing Map is used extensively as a clustering and visualization technique in exploratory data analysis. This chapter provides a general introduction to the structure, algorithm and quality of Self Organizing Maps and presents industrial engineering related applications reported in the literature.
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Asan, U., Ercan, S. (2012). An Introduction to Self-Organizing Maps. In: Kahraman, C. (eds) Computational Intelligence Systems in Industrial Engineering. Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, vol 6. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-77-0_14
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