Call for Papers: WSOM+ 2026 (co-organized with IDEAL 2026)

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Call for Papers: WSOM+ 2026
16th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps,
Learning Vector Quantization & Beyond

Co-organized with IDEAL 2026
Manchester, UK, 19-21 November 2026

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.

PUBLICATION:
The WSOM+ 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
For updates, please see:
https://personen.fiw.thws.de/wsom/