Faithful Representations and Topographic Maps: From Distortion- to Information-Based Self-Organization

From the Publisher: Topographic map formation is an important component of both artificial and biological networks, and is emerging as a key topic in the theory of Neural Networks, a popular area of artificial intelligence research. This book discusses in detail, the science behind a computer's ability to self-organize, an area which has important practical applications in data mining and pattern recognition. Written by a well-known researcher in the field and providing an introductory chapter to bring newcomers to the topic up-to-speed, this title provides complete coverage of self-organizing maps.