<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-- Apologies in advance for multiple postings --</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">************</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">WSOM+ 2024</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">************</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">15th International Workshop on Self Organizing Maps,Learning Vector</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Quantization & Beyond</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Mittweida, Germany, <span dir="ltr">10-12 July 2024</span>, <span dir="ltr">wsom.si-cim.de</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><< Catch the early bird until 10.04! >></span><div>Register now: <a href="https://www.forschung.hs-mittweida.de/en/webs/welcome/registration/">https://www.forschung.hs-mittweida.de/en/webs/welcome/registration/</a><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Confirmed invited speakers:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">- John Aldo Lee - University catholique de Louvain, Belgium</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">- Barbara Hammer - University Bielefeld, Germany</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">- Peter Tino - University of Birmingham, United Kingdom</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Workshop on Self Organizing Maps,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Learning Vector Quantization &</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Beyond (!)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">WSOM+ is the premium international conference on self-organizing maps (SOM)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">and learning vector quantization (LVQ) for unsupervised and supervised</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">data analysis as well as related areas like data</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">visualization, statistical data analysis and interpretable data exploration.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Contributions about theory, data analysis and respective applications are highly</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">welcome.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Theory of SOM, LVQ and related models</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Prototype-based learning models</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Data Visualization</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Statistical Data Analysis and Machine Learning</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Interpretable Models</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Confidence & Transfer Learning</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Applications in Medicine/Biology</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Engineering Applications</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Applications in Finance/Economics</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+ Hardware and Neuromorphic Hardware for LVQ & SOM</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">See you - all the best</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Frank </span></div></div></body></html>