“…Due to the flexible and hierarchical nature the GHSOM is capable to extract even more complex clustering with a very faster training process. GHSOMs have been adopted in many fields, including image recognition (Palomo et al, 2009(Palomo et al, , 2013, marketing (de Brito and Oliveira, 2012;, finance (Huang et al, 2014), text mining (Shih et al, 2008), data mining (Soriano-Asensi et al, 2008), Time series (Hsu and Chen, 2014), network security (Zolotukhin et al, 2013), and in other emerging areas of research.…”