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APPLICATIONS OF SELFORGANIZING MAPS
Edited by Magnus Johnsson


Applications of Self-Organizing Maps
/>Edited by Magnus Johnsson
Contributors
Wattanapong Kurdthongmee, Dimitris Kontogiorgos, Hector Benitez-Perez, Hiroshi Dozono, Flavius Gorgonio,
Huliane Silva, Cícero Silva, Ji Zhang, Jennifer Francis, Natasa Skific, Ryotaro Kamimura, Lydwine Gross, Arnaud
Quesney, Suzanne Angeli, Marina Resta, Yuan-Chao Liu, Masaki Ishii, Fernando Bacao, Victor Lobo, Roberto
Henriques, João Carlos Soares de Mello, Eliane Gomes, Lidia Angulo Meza, Sérgio De Zen, Thiago Bernardino De
Carvalho, Urbano Gomes Abreu, Luiz Biondi Neto

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Contents

Preface VII
Chapter 1

Graph Mining Based SOM: A Tool to
Analyze Economic Stability 1
Marina Resta

Chapter 2

Social Interaction and Self-Organizing Maps 27
Ryotaro Kamimura

Chapter 3

Using Wavelets for Feature Extraction and Self Organizing

Maps for Fault Diagnosis of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems 43
Héctor Benítez-Pérez, Jorge L. Ortega-Arjona and Alma BenítezPérez

Chapter 4

Ex-Post Clustering of Brazilian Beef Cattle Farms Using Soms
and Cross-Evaluation Dea Models 67
João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello, Eliane Gonỗalves
Gomes, Lidia Angulo Meza, Luiz Biondi Neto, Urbano Gomes Pinto
de Abreu, Thiago Bernardino de Carvalho and Sergio de Zen

Chapter 5

A Self – Organizing Map Based Strategy
for Heterogeneous Teaming 89
Huliane M. Silva, Cícero A. Silva and Flavius L. Gorgônio

Chapter 6

Application of Self Organizing Maps to Multi Modal Adaptive
Authentication System Using Behavior Biometrics 119
Hiroshi Dozono

Chapter 7

Quantification of Emotions for Facial Expression: Generation of
Emotional Feature Space Using Self-Mapping 143
Masaki Ishii, Toshio Shimodate, Yoichi Kageyama, Tsuyoshi
Takahashi and Makoto Nishida

Image Simplification Using Kohonen Maps: Application to Satellite Data for Cloud Detection and Land Cover Mapping
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