Assessing the Efficiency of Health Care Providers: a SOM Perspective.
Marina Resta.
Fuzzy Clustering of the Self-Organizing Map: Some Applications on Financial Time Series.
Peter Sarlin and Tomas Eklund.
Self Organizing Maps as Models of Social Processes: the Case of Electoral Preferences.
Antonio Neme, Sergio Hernández, and Omar Neme.

11.30-12.30: Lunch

12.30-13.30: PLENARY SESSION (chair: Jorma Laaksonen)

Topographic Mapping of Dissimilarity Data.
Barbara Hammer, Andrej Gisbrecht, Alexander Hasenfuss, Bassam Mokbel, Frank-Michael Schleif, and Xibin Zhu.

13.30-15.00: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY 1 (chair: Pablo Estevez)

EnvSOM: a SOM Algorithm Conditioned on the Environment for Clustering and Visualization.
Serafin Alonso, Mika Sulkava, Miguel Angel Prada, Manuel Domínguez, and Jaakko Hollmén.
Spectral Clustering as an Automated SOM Segmentation Tool.
Kadim Tasdemir.
Sparse Functional Relevance Learning in Generalized Learning Vector Quantization.
Thomas Villmann and Marika Kästner.

15.00-15.30: Coffee

15.30-17.30: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY 2 (chair: Kadim Tasdemir)

Relevance Learning in Unsupervised Vector Quantization based on Divergences.
Marika Kästner, Andreas Backhaus, Tina Geweniger, Sven Haase, Udo Seiffert, and Thomas Villmann.
Requirements for the Learning of Multiple Dynamics.
Takashi Ohkubo, Tetsuo Furukawa, and Kazuhiro Tokunaga.
Growing Graph Network Based on an Online Gaussian Mixture Model.
Kazuhiro Tokunaga.
Evolving a Self-Organizing Feature Map for Visual Object Tracking.
José Everardo B. Maia, Guilherme Barreto, and André Luís V. Coelho.

17.40-18.30: POSTER SPOTLIGHT SESSION (chair: Timo Honkela)

19.00-21.00: GET TOGETHER AND POSTER SESSION, T building (Konemiehentie 2) (chair: Timo Honkela)

Poster session papers:

Analysing the Structure of Semantic Concepts in Visual Databases.
Mats Sjöberg and Jorma Laaksonen.
Classification using Topologically Preserving Spherical Self-Organizing Maps.
Heizo Tokutaka, Masaaki Ohkita, Ying Hai, Kikuo Fujimura, and Matashige Oyabu.
Influence of Learning Rates and Neighboring Functions on Self-organizing Maps.
Pavel Stefanovic and Olga Kurasova.
Decision of Class Borders on a Spherical SOM with Non-equal Class Distributions.
Nobuo Matsuda and Heizo Tokutaka.
A SOM-based Analysis of Early Prosodic Acquisition of English by Brazilian Learners: Preliminary Results.
Ana Cristina C. Silva, Ana Cristina P. Macedo, and Guilherme Barreto.
Visualizing Patterns in the Air Quality in Mexico City with Self-Organizing Maps.
Antonio Neme and Leticia Hernández.
Mapping of the 3D objects using Computer Generated Hologram SOM.
Hiroshi Dozono, Asami Tanaka, Shinya Nishijima, Hiroshi Tsukizi, and Masanori Nakakuni.
Gamma-Filter Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Time Series Analysis.
Pablo Estevez and Rodrigo Hernández.
Analysing the Similarity of Album Art with Self-Organising Maps.
Rudolf Mayer.
A New Label Maximization Based Incremental Neural Clustering Approach: Application to Text Clustering.
Jean-Charles Lamirel, Raghvendra Mall, Shadi Al Shehabi, Ghada Safi.

TUESDAY 14 JUNE

All sessions in lecture hall TU1 of the TUAS building of the Aalto University in Otaniementie 17, Espoo

09.00-10.30: APPLICATIONS OF DATA MINING AND ANALYSIS 1 (chair: Thomas Villmann)

Topographic Measure Based on External Criteria for Self-Organizing Map.
Ken-ichi Fukui and Masayuki Numao.
Self-organizing Maps of Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Situation in the World.
Yasir Mehmood, Mudassar Abbas, Xi Chen, and Timo Honkela.
Mining the City Data: Making Sense of Cities with Self-Organizing Maps.
Omar Neme, JRG Pulido, and Antonio Neme.

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-12.30: APPLICATIONS OF DATA MINING AND ANALYSIS 2 (chair: Olli Simula)

A Discussion on Visual Interactive Data Exploration using Self-Organizing Maps.
Julia Moehrmann, Andre Burkovski, Evgeny Baranovskiy, Geoffrey-Alexeij Heinze, Andrej Rapoport, and Gunther Heidemann.
Design of a Structured 3D SOM as a Music Archive.
Arnulfo Azcarraga and Sean Manalili.
A Novel Bioinformatics Strategy to Predict Directional Changes of Influenza A Virus Genome Sequences.
Yuki Iwasaki, Kennosuke Wada, Masae Itoh, Toshimichi Ikemura, and Takashi Abe.

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.00: LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND DOCUMENT ANALYSIS 1 (chair: Krista Lagus)

Impairment and Rehabilitation in Bilingual Aphasia: A SOM-Based Model.
Uli Grasemann, Chaleece Sandberg, Swathi Kiran, and Risto Miikkulainen.
Gaussian Selection Using Self-Organizing Map for Automatic Speech Recognition.
Yujun Wang and Hugo Van hamme.
Self Organizing Maps in NLP: Exploration of Coreference Feature Space.
Andre Burkovski, Wiltrud Kessler, Gunther Heidemann, Hamidreza Kobdani, and Hinrich Schütze

15.00-15.30: Coffee

15.30-16.30: LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND DOCUMENT ANALYSIS 2 (chair: Risto Miikkulainen)

On Wires and Cables: Content Analysis of WikiLeaks Using Self-Organising Maps.
Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber.
Media Map: A Multilingual Document Map with a Design Interface.
Timo Honkela, Jorma Laaksonen, Hannele Törrö, and Juhani Tenhunen.

17.00-18.00: PLENARY SESSION (chair: Marie Cottrell)

Contextually Self-Organized Maps of Chinese Words.
Teuvo Kohonen and Hongbing Xing.

18.40: A bus for the banquet dinner leaves from Radisson Blu Hotel Espoo

19.30: A ferry for the banquet dinner leaves from Merisatamanranta

19.40-22.20: Banquet dinner at restaurant Saari

22.30: A ferry from the banquet dinner leaves

22.40: A bus for Radisson Blu Hotel Espoo leaves from Merisatamanranta

WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE

All sessions in Dipoli Congress Center in Otakaari 24, Espoo

09.00-10.00: PLENARY SESSION, Hall 1

10.00-10.30: Coffee

10.30-12.00: VISUALIZATION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, lecture hall Luolamies (chair: Markus Koskela)

A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction for Large Data Sets.
Barbara Hammer, Michael Biehl, Kerstin Bunte, and Bassam Mokbel.
Considering Spatialization Aspects when Positioning Input Vectors on Self-Organizing Map Output Grids.
Tonio Fincke.
Aircraft Engine Fleet Monitoring using Self-Organizing Maps and Edit Distance.
Etienne Come, Marie Cottrell, Michel Verleysen, and Jérôme Lacaille.

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.00: PLENARY SESSION, Hall 1

Learning Structural Descriptions of Objects Using Equivariant Capsules.
Geoffrey Hinton.

14.00-15.20: ICANN 2011 SESSION ON SELF-ORGANIZATION, lecture hall Luolamies

15.20-15.40: WSOM 2011 Closing, lecture hall Luolamies

15.40-16.00: Coffee

17.30-21.00: Farewell, T building (Konemiehentie 2)