13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization
Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 June 2019
https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu

Call for Papers
Paper submission deadline EXTENDED: January 31, 2019

WSOM+ invites contributions related to the theoretical and methodological aspects of Unsupervised learning, Self-Organizing Maps, Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering, Data Visualization and closely related topics, including but not limited to:
· Data analysis and visualization
· Clustering and visualization performance metrics
· Time series analysis and signal processing
· Mathematical approaches including information theory, mathematical statistics and statistical Machine Learning
· Software and hardware implementations
· Architectural solutions including hierarchical and growing networks, ensemble models and special metrics
· Unsupervised feature selection, extraction and data pre-processing.
· Interpretable and explainable models
· Large-scaale data analysis (Big Data)
· Unsupervised models in computational neuroscience
· Models, experimental investigations and applications of autonomous mental development.

We also call for and encourage scientific and application-oriented papers that demonstrate the use of the aforementioned methods and models in fields of knowledge such as:
· Data mining, including stream mining and process mining
· Pattern recognition
· Knowledge management
· Business intelligence and financial analysis
· Anomaly detection and outlier analysis
· Industrial applications
· Scientific applications
· Bioinformatics, biostatistics and applications in biomedicine and healthcare
· Telecommunications
· Transport optimization
· Cognitive modeling
· Language modeling
· Robotics and intelligent systems
· Image processing and vision
· Speech processing and text and document analysis

For further details on dates, submission, registration, venue, committees, and the city at large, please visit https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu

The WSOM+ 2019 proceedings will be published as a book in Springer’s Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) series.

Barcelona awaits your participation in the 13th WSOM+ conference! This is a welcoming and inclusive city, home to thriving Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence communities. Hosted by the Intelligent Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI) Research Center at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), WSOM+ 2019 aims to build on a successful string of editions that started more than two decades ago with WSOM’97 in Helsinki. The conference is meant to be an international reference for research in unsupervised learning, self-organizing systems, Learning Vector Quantization and data visualization.
Submit your contributions to WSOM+2019 and meet us in the Barcelona summer!
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Organizing Committee
Alfredo Vellido, Chair (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech): avellido@cs.upc.edu
Karina Gibert (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
Cecilio Angulo (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
José David Martín (Universitat de València)

Steering Committee:
Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chairman, Finland)
Marie Cottrell (France)
Pablo Estevez (Chile)
Timo Honkela (Finland)
Jean Charles Lamirel (France)
Thomas Martinetz (Germany)
Erzsebet Merenyi (USA)
Madalina Olteanu (France)
Michel Verleysen (Belgium)
Thomas Villmann (Germany)
Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan)
Hujun Yin (UK)