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The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Publisher's description: The Self-Organizing Map, or Kohonen Map, is one of the most widely used neural network algorithms, with thousands of applications covered in the literature. It was one of the strong underlying factors in the popularity of neural networks starting in the early 80's. Currently this method has been included in a large number of commercial and public domain software packages. In this book, top experts on the SOM method take a look at the state of the art and the future of this computing paradigm. The 30 chapters of this book cover the current status of SOM theory, such as connections of SOM to clustering, classification, probabilistic models, and energy functions. Many applications of the SOM are given, with data mining and exploratory data analysis the central topic, applied to large databases of financial data, medical data, free-form text documents, digital images, speech, and process measurements. Biological models related to the SOM are also discussed. Indexed articles: \textit{Karayiannis, Nicolaos B.}, From aggregation operators to soft learning vector quantization and clustering algorithms, 47-56 [Zbl 0949.68137] \textit{Hasenjäger, M.; Ritter, H.; Obermayer, K.}, Active learning in self-organizing maps, 57-70 [Zbl 0979.68560] \textit{Bezdek, James C.; Kuncheva, Ludmila I.}, Point prototype generation and classifier design, 71-96 [Zbl 0979.68562] \textit{Ritter, Helge}, Self-organizing maps on non-euclidean spaces, 97-109 [Zbl 0945.68152] \textit{Koikkalainen, Pasi}, Tree structured self-organizing maps, 121-130 [Zbl 0945.68153] \textit{Thiran, P.}, Kohonen self-organizing map with quantized weights, 145-156 [Zbl 0945.68154] \textit{Polani, Daniel}, On the optimization of self-organizing maps by genetic algorithms, 157-169 [Zbl 0968.68538]