“…SOM has been successfully used as a clustering technique in many computing areas such as image analysis, optical patterns, acoustic processing, speech recognition, signal processing, and robotics (Kohonen, 2001). It has also been applied to documents organization (Kaski et al, 1998), database schema (Zhao and Ram, 2004), web search results (Roussinov and Chen, 2001), and financial areas like real estate appraisal, mutual fund portfolio, etc. (Deboeck andKohonen, 1998, Vesanto, 1999).…”