Self-organization property of Kohonen's map with general type of stimuli distribution

Neural Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1637-1643

  Sadeghi, Ali A ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Markov processes; Neural networks; One dimensional Kohonen's SOM; Winner definition

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY;

ONE-DIMENSIONAL KOHONEN'S SELF-ORGANIZING MAP (SOM);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

EID: 0032446289     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00101-4     Document Type: Article

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