Call for Papers: WSOM+ 2026 (co-organized with IDEAL 2026),
Manchester, UK, 19-21 November 2026

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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: 22 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.