GeoSOM   Publications   /   Publicações

Some Relevant Publications

• Exploratory geospatial data analysis using the GeoSOM suite

By: Henriques, R., F. Bacao and V. Lobo;
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 36(3): 218-232



• Geo-SOM and its integration with geographic information systems

By: Bacao, F.; Lobo, V.; Painho, M.;
WSOM 05, 5th Workshop On Self-Organizing Maps, Paris, University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 5 - 8 September 2005



• The Self-Organizing Map, the Geo-SOM, and relevant variants for geosciences

By: Bacao, F.; Lobo, V.; Painho, M.;
Computers and Geosciences, Vol. 31, Nº 2, Elsevier, pp 155-163, March 2005.



• Geo-Self-Organizing Map (Geo-SOM) for Building and Exploring Homogeneous Regions

By: Bação, F.; Lobo, V.; Painho, M.; in Egenhofer, M.; Miller, H.; Freksa, C.(Eds.); GIScience 2004,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin,. pp. 22-37, 2004.



• The Self-Organizing Map and it’s variants as tools for geodemographical data analysis:
  the case of Lisbon’s Metropolitan Area

By:Victor Lobo, Fernando Bação, Marco Painho;
AGILE 2004, 7th AGILE conference on Geographic Information Science April 29th - May 1st, Heraklion, Greece, 2004.



• Applications of Different Self-Organizing Map Variants to Geographical Information Science Problems

By: Bação, F.; Lobo, V.; Painho, M.; in Agarwal, P., Skupin, A. (Eds) Self-Organizing Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Science; Wiley 2008

Other Publications

     Fuzzy Geographic Membership

• Density based fuzzy membership functions in the context of geocomputation

By:Victor Lobo, Fernando Bação, Miguel Loureiro,
ICCS’2007 – International Conference on Computational Science, Beijing, May 27-30 2007.



• Fuzzy Classification of Geodemographic Data Using Self-Organizing Maps

By: Miguel Loureiro, Victor Lobo, Fernando Bação
GIScience 2006, Münster – Germany, September 20th - 23th 2006.



• Possibilistic Fuzzy Clustering Using Self Organizing Maps

By: Miguel Loureiro, Victor Lobo, Fernando Bação,
SCRA2006 - International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques,Tomar,Portugal,September 2006



• Determinação das funções de pertença em fuzzy clustering através da Matriz-U de um Self-Organizing Map

By: Miguel Loureiro, Victor Lobo, Fernando Bação,
Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD 2005, Ponta Delgada, Açores,Portugal,20-23 April 2005

     Other Geographic Clustering Problems

• Carto-som – Cartogram creation using self-organizing maps

By: , Roberto Henriques, Fernando Bação, Victor Lobo,
ECTQG’05 – 14th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Tomar, Portugal, 9-13 September 2005



• Spatial modelling of metropolization in Portugal: Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Metropolitan Patterns

By: Patrícia Abrantes, Fernando Bação, Victor Lobo, José António Tenedório
ECTQG’05 – 14th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Tomar, Portugal,September 2005



• One dimensional Self-Organizing Maps to optimize marine patrol activities

By: Fernando Bacao, Victor Lobo
IEEE Conference Oceans’05 Europe, Brest, France,June 2005



• Defining lines of maximum probability for the design of patrol vessel itineraries,

By: Fernando Bacao; Victor Lobo
AGILE 2005 - The 8th AGILE Conference on GIScience, Estoril Congress Center, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, May 26th to 28th, 2005



• On the particular characteristics of spatial data and its similarities to secondary data used in data mining

By: Fernando Bacao; Victor Lobo
Gis Planet 2005, II International Conference & Exhibition on Geographic Information, Lisbon, May and June 2005



• Self-organizing Maps as Substitutes for K-Means Clustering

By: Bacao, F.; Lobo, V.; Painho, M.;
In: V.S. Sunderam, G. van Albada, P. Sloot, J. J. Dongarra; International Conference on Computational Science 2005.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3516. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 476-483, 2005.



• Applying Genetic Algorithms to Zone Design

By: Bacao, F.; Lobo, V.; Painho, M.
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Vol. 9, Issue 5, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 341-348,ISSN:1432-7643, May 2005



• Clustering census data: comparing the performance of self-organising maps and k-means algorithms

By: Fernando Bação, Victor Lobo, Marco Painho;
KDNet Symposium:Knowledge-Based Services for the Public Sector, 3-4 June,Bonn, Germany,2004



• Development of a GIS location model for treated wood waste prospecting the implementation of remediation plants in Portugal

By: Helena Gomes, Alexandra Ribeiro, Victor Lobo
Workshop COST Action E22, March 22-23. Estoril, Portugal, 2004



• Análise comparativa da classificação dos concelhos de Portugal continental por métodos hierárquicos e com o método de redes neuronais de Kohonen (Self-Organizing map)

By: Aníbal Vieira, Victor Lobo
JOCLAD 2004 - XI Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, Lisboa, 1 a 3 de Abril de 2004

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