Rough set based clustering of the self organizing map

• Main Authors: Mohebi, Ehsan, Sap, M. N. N.
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2009
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13092/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACIIDS.2009.79
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The Kohonen Self Organizing Map (SOM) is an excellent tool in exploratory phase of data mining. The SOM is a popular tool that maps a high-dimensional space onto a small number of dimensions by placing similar elements close together, forming clusters. When the number of SOM units is large, to facil...