Topology preservation of Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) is an advantageous property for correct clustering. Among several existing measures of topology violation, this paper studies t...
The Self-Organizing Map, SOM, is a widely used tool in exploratory data analysis. A major drawback of the SOM has been the lack of a theoretically justified criterion for model se...
Latent variable models represent the probability density of data in a space of several dimensions in terms of a smaller number of latent, or hidden, variables. A familiar example ...
Abstract—Unstructured peer-to-peer networks can be extremely flexible, but, because of size, complexity, and high variability in peers’ capacity and reliability, it is a conti...
Paul L. Snyder, Rachel Greenstadt, Giuseppe Valett...
This paper introduces MOCAS (Model Of Components for Adaptive Systems), a generic state-based component model which enables the self-adaptation of software components together wit...