Call for Papers: WSOM+ 2026 (co-organized with IDEAL 2026),
Manchester, UK, 19-21 November 2026
— Apologies in advance for multiple postings —
WSOM+ 2026
16th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps,
Learning Vector Quantization & Beyond
https://personen.fiw.thws.de/wsom/
Co-organized with IDEAL 2026
Manchester, UK, 19-21 November 2026
Call for Papers
WSOM+ 2026 invites original contributions related to the theoretical,
methodological, and application-oriented aspects of unsupervised learning,
Self-Organizing Maps, Learning Vector Quantization, clustering, data
visualization, and closely related topics.
WSOM+ provides an international forum for research on SOM, LVQ,
prototype-based learning, interpretable models, and related methods for
unsupervised and supervised data analysis, visualization, and applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
– Self-Organizing Maps and related models
– Learning Vector Quantization
– Prototype-based Learning
– Vector Quantization
– Clustering and Unsupervised Learning
– Data Visualization
– Embedding Techniques
– Statistical Data Analysis and Machine Learning
– Interpretable Models
– Confidence & Transfer Learning
– Hardware and Neuromorphic Hardware for LVQ & SOM
We also encourage scientific and application-oriented papers demonstrating
the use of these methods in areas including, but not limited to:
– Data mining, including stream mining and process mining
– Pattern recognition
– Knowledge management
– Business intelligence and financial analysis
– Anomaly detection and outlier analysis
– Industrial applications
– Scientific applications
– Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and
applications in biomedicine and healthcare Telecommunications
– Transport optimization
– Cognitive modeling
– Language modeling
– Robotics and intelligent systems
– Image processing and vision
– Speech processing
– Text and document analysis
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2026
Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2026
Final version due: 11 September 2026
Conference dates: 19-21 November 2026
SUBMISSION:
Submission will be handled via the IDEAL 2026 online submission system (tbc)
The dedicated submission link will be announced soon.
For updates look at: https://personen.fiw.thws.de/wsom/
PUBLICATION:
The WSOM+ 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series.
VENUE: Manchester, UK (Details follow)
FURTHER INFORMATION:
The dedicated WSOM+ 2026 webpage is currently under preparation.
More details on submission, registration, and programme will follow soon.