“…SOMs were introduced by Kohonen (1982), and they have a wide variety of applications in different fields (Kangas & Kaski, 1998) such as visualisation or voice and image analyses. They have also been successfully applied to process monitoring tasks such as the analysis of a wave soldering process (Liukkonen, Havia, Leinonen, & Hiltunen, 2009), Internet-based remote supervision (Domínquez, Fuertes, Reguera, Díaz, & Cuadrado, 2007), fault diagnosis of an ethylene cracking process (Kämpjärvi et al, 2008), and monitoring of a flash smelting furnace (Jämsä-Jounela, Vermasvuori, Endén, & Haavisto, 2003), for instance.…”