The volume presents new developments in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and relevant applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are clustering, discrimination, data analysis, and statistics, as well as applications in economics, biology, and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of application papers demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques. TOC:Clustering and Discrimination.- Data Analysis and Statistics.- Data Mining, Information Processing, and Automation.- Finance, Marketing, and Management Science.- Biology, Archaeology, and Medicine.
