TY - GEN
T1 - Self organizing maps as models of social processes
T2 - 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, WSOM 2011
AU - Neme, Antonio
AU - Hernández, Sergio
AU - Neme, Omar
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We propose the use of self-organizing maps as models of social processes, in particular, of electoral preferences. In some voting districts patterns of electoral preferences emerge, such that in nearby areas citizens tend to vote for the same candidate whereas in geographically distant areas the most voted candidate is that whose political position is distant to the latter. Those patterns are similar to the spatial structure achieved by self-organizing maps. This model is able to achieve spatial order from disorder by forming a topographic map of the external field, identified with advertising from the media. Here individuals are represented in two spaces: a static geographical location, and a dynamic political position. The modification of the later leads to a pattern in which both spaces are correlated.
AB - We propose the use of self-organizing maps as models of social processes, in particular, of electoral preferences. In some voting districts patterns of electoral preferences emerge, such that in nearby areas citizens tend to vote for the same candidate whereas in geographically distant areas the most voted candidate is that whose political position is distant to the latter. Those patterns are similar to the spatial structure achieved by self-organizing maps. This model is able to achieve spatial order from disorder by forming a topographic map of the external field, identified with advertising from the media. Here individuals are represented in two spaces: a static geographical location, and a dynamic political position. The modification of the later leads to a pattern in which both spaces are correlated.
KW - Self-organizing maps
KW - electoral preferences
KW - social sciences and computational models
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959305490&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21566-7_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21566-7_5
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
SN - 9783642215650
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 51
EP - 60
BT - Advances in Self-Organizing Maps - 8th International Workshop, WSOM 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 13 June 2011 through 15 June 2011
ER -