Bibliography of Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Papers: 1981-1997

Abstract

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm has attracted an ever increasing amount of interest among researches and practitioners in a wide variety of elds. The SOM and a variant of it, the LVQ, have been analyzed extensively, a number of variants of them have been developed and, perhaps most notably, they have been applied extensively within elds ranging from engineering sciences to medicine, biology, and economics. We have collected a comprehensive list of 3343 scienti c papers that use the algorithms, have bene ted from them, or contain analyses of them. The list is intended to serve as a source for literature surveys. We have provided both a thematic and a keyword index to help nding articles of interest.