WSOM'97 Call For Participation

[Timo Honkela]

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 W O R K S H O P   O N   S E L F - O R G A N I Z I N G   M A P S

           Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
                         June 4-6, 1997

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                 http://nucleus.hut.fi/wsom97/
   
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WSOM'97 is the first international meeting to be entirely dedicated
to the theory and applications of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). 
The SOM is a new powerful software tool for hard real-world
problems listed below. Highlights of the program:

  - TUTORIAL SHORT COURSE:  prof. Teuvo Kohonen

  - PLENARIES:  prof. Helge Ritter: Learning with the parameterized
                                    self-organizing map

                prof. Karl Goser: Self-organizing map for
                                  intelligent process control

                prof. Marie Cottrell: Theoretical aspects of
                                      the SOM algorithm

  - INVITED:    prof. Risto Miikkulainen: SOM research in the USA

                prof. Heizo Tokutaka: Condensed review of SOM and
                                      LVQ research in Japan

  - SESSIONS:   Pattern recognition and        Optimization      
                signal processing

                Monitoring and data mining     Financial analysis

                Temporal sequence processing   Image analysis and vision
               
                Theory and extensions          Probabilistic
                                               interpretations

                Text and document maps         Hardware  

  - PANEL:      Document search

  - SOM CLINIC: Practical advice is given during the breaks

  - BANQUET:    Dinner speech by Robert Hecht-Nielsen:
                A neural network saga

  - DEMONSTRATIONS


WSOM'97 is a unique occasion for anyone who

  - is looking for efficient means for analyzing and visualizing
    complex real-world data, or

  - wishes to gain new insight into the newest applications of the SOM.


REGISTRATION

General registration fee is FIM 1200 for the workshop and FIM 700
for the tutorial. Reduced registration fees are available for
students as well as for early registration before May 1.

Please see http://nucleus.hut.fi/wsom97/ for the program.
On the page there is also information on the registration,
accomodation, travel, and other practical arrangements.
For further information, please contact wsom97 at nucleus.hut.fi


CO-OPERATING SOCIETIES

WSOM'97 is a satellite workshop of the 10th Scandinavian Conference
on Image Analysis (SCIA) to be held on June 9 to 11 in Lappeenranta,
Finland, arranged by the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. 
Other co-operating societies are the European Neural Network Society
(ENNS), IEEE Finland Section, and the Finnish Artificial Intelligence
Society.


Teuvo Kohonen, WSOM'97 Chairman

Erkki Oja, Program Chairman

Olli Simula, Organization Chairman