Advances in Self-Organizing Maps: 7th International Workshop, WSOM 2009, St. Augustine, Florida, June 8-10, 2009. Proceedings

th These proceedings contain refereed papers presented at the 7 WSOM held at the Casa Monica Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida, June 8–10, 2009. We designed the wo— shop to serve as a regular forum for researchers in academia and industry who are interested in the exciting field of self—organizing maps (SOM). The program includes excellent examples of the use of SOM in many areas of social sciences, economics, computational biology, engineering, time series analysis, data visualization and c— p...