Synopses & Reviews
The subject of this book is the analysis and processing of structural information or quantitative data, with a special emphasis on classification-related problems and methods. Various different approaches are presented including theoretical, statistical, structural, mathematical, conceptual, linguistic and computational aspects. These methodological investigations are completed by illustrative applications from practice, originating from quite different fields such as artificial intelligence, computer science, data bases, libraries, knowledge-based systems, medical diagnostics, molecular biology and genome analysis, multivariate statistics, marketing, sociology, biological taxonomy, archeology.
Synopsis
This volume presents a selection of 42 refereed and revised contributions (includ- ing some invited lectures) which were presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation e. V." (GfKl), the German Classification Society. This conference was held at the University of Kaiserslautern from March 3 - 5, 1993 and jointly hosted by the Research Center for Mathematical Logic of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, the University of Kaiserslautern, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH). The local orga- nization was performed by Michael M. Richter, Wolfgang Lenski, Sabine Friedrich, Annette Klein, and Elisabeth Wette-Roch of the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern and the Research Center for Mathematical Logic of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, respectively. The mem- bers of the Scientific Program Committee were Hans-Hermann Bock, PaulO. Degens, Matthias Herfurth, Hans-Joachim Hermes, Rudiger Klar, Rudolf Mathar, Michael M. Richter, and Rudolf Wille.