This document discusses several algorithms used in the SCPSNSP method for day-ahead electricity load and price forecasting, including Self Organizing Feature Map (SOM), Topographic Product, and Cascade 2. SOM is used for clustering electricity time series data into patterns. The Topographic Product measures how well the feature map represents the input data. Cascade 2, a neural network training algorithm, is used for next symbol prediction based on the clustered pattern sequences.