Self organizing maps as models of social processes: The case of electoral preferences

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6731 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-60

  Neme, Antonio ^a,b   Hernández, Sergio ^b   Neme, Omar ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

electoral preferences; Self organizing maps; social sciences and computational models

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL PREFERENCES; EXTERNAL FIELDS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; SOCIAL PROCESS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; SPATIAL ORDERING;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; MAPS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 79959305490     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21566-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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