Re: Kohonen networks and internals

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>]

Robert.Land@t-online.de (robert_wilhelm_land) writes:
> It would be rather helpful to understand the SOFM's in a deeper way
> before starting to work with them.
> 
> Having an awful trouble in reading and understanding Kohonens book I
> would like to ask the list maintainers to permit me in asking and
> taking some chapters out of "Self-Organizing Maps" , 2nd edition into
> discussion - at least for this period of low traffic. It might help to
> maintain pdp++ by more users.

This might be OK, but I do think that there are some better treatments
of this material in the literature that might make that unnecessary.
For example, the chapters in Hertz, Krough, & Palmer, though somewhat
brief, are fairly clear.  Perhaps others on the list have other
suggestions for good recent treatments?  BTW, I found the Kohonen
presentation of his ideas not particularly easy to understand too.

				- Randy