Context-Aware Systems and Applications. First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Clustering Hierarchical Data Using SOM Neural Network

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_28,
        author={Le Tu and Nguyen Hoan and Le Thai},
        title={Clustering Hierarchical Data Using SOM Neural Network},
        proceedings={Context-Aware Systems and Applications. First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={ICCASA},
        year={2013},
        month={2},
        keywords={neural network kohonen self organizing map clustering data data mining},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_28}
    }
    
  • Le Tu
    Nguyen Hoan
    Le Thai
    Year: 2013
    Clustering Hierarchical Data Using SOM Neural Network
    ICCASA
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_28
Le Tu1,*, Nguyen Hoan2,*, Le Thai1,*
  • 1: Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology
  • 2: Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
*Contact email: anhtucntt@gmail.com, quanghoanptit@yahoo.com.vn, lesonthai@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper proposes a solution for clustering hierarchical data using SOM neural network. The training process that combines data-partition and network-partition allows forming an automated hierarchical tree structure representing the clustering process more detailed from the root node to the leaf node. In which the root node and intermediate nodes act as the orientation for data distribution, and the leaf nodes represent real clusters of data. This training tree structure allows programming parallel processing to speed up network training. In addition, applying the trained network could be more efficient because the search process performed on the tree structure.