Self-Organizing Map in web mining Technical report

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Self-Organizing Map Technical report Prepared by : Mogtapa Eltayip Abd-Elrhman Mohammed Index (12) Supervised: Abdelhamid Salih Ph.D Abstract Neural Networks are a computational approach which is based on a large collection of neural units loosely modeling the way the brain solves problems with large clusters of biological neurons connected by axons. Each neural unit is connected with many others, and links can be enforcing or inhibitory in their effect on the activation state of connected neural units INTRODUCTION The Self-Organizing Map is one of the most popular neural network models. It belongs to the category of competitive learning networks. The Self-Organizing Map is based on unsupervised learning, which means that no human intervention is needed during the learning and that little needs to be known about the characteristics of the input data. We could, for example, use the SOM for clustering data wit...