Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., University of Bielefeld, March 10–12, 1999

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Developments in Latent Variable Models....Pages 3-17
Regression-Type Models for Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Networks....Pages 18-31
Relational Data Analysis, Discrimination and Classification....Pages 32-39
Data Types and Information: Beyond the Current Practice of Data Analysis....Pages 40-51
Two-Mode Three-Way Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling with Constraints on Asymmetry....Pages 52-59
Regularized Discriminant Analysis with Optimally Scaled Data....Pages 60-67
Recurrence Properties in Two-Mode Hierarchical Clustering....Pages 68-73
On Pyramidal Classification in the Delimitation of Climatic Regions in Catalonia....Pages 74-82
On the Modal Understanding of Triadic Contexts....Pages 83-94
Clustering and Scaling: Grouping Variables in Burt Matrices....Pages 95-104
Standardisation of Data Set under Different Measurement Scales....Pages 105-112
Neural Networks for Two-Group Classification Problems with Monotonicity Hints....Pages 113-118
A Bridge from the Nearest Neighbour to the Fixed Bandwidth in Nonparametric Functional Estimation....Pages 119-126
Clustering Techniques for the Detection of Business Cycles....Pages 127-134
Simulated Annealing Optimization for Two-mode Partitioning....Pages 135-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Competitiveness of Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 145-152
Intelligent Data Analysis via Linguistic Data Summaries: A Fuzzy Logic Approach....Pages 153-161
Algorithm Selection Support for Classification....Pages 162-169
Society of Knowledge — Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Information Processing in Virtual Networks....Pages 170-179
What is Computational Statistics?....Pages 180-191
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
A Development Framework for Nature Analogic Heuristics....Pages 192-200
Systematizing and Evaluating Data Mining Methods....Pages 201-209
On Textures: A Sketch of a Texture-Based Image Segmentation Approach....Pages 210-218
Automatic Texture Classification by Visual Properties....Pages 219-226
Java Servlets versus CGI — Implications for Remote Data Analysis....Pages 227-236
Generating Automatically Local Feature Groups of Complex and Deformed Objects....Pages 237-244
Decision Tree Construction by Association Rules....Pages 245-253
Learning Complex Similarity Measures....Pages 254-263
Graphical Programming in Statistics: The XGPL Prototype....Pages 264-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Measuring Brand Loyalty on the Individual Level: a Comparative Study....Pages 275-287
Facility Location Planning with Qualitative Location Factors....Pages 288-295
Testing the Multinomial Logit Model....Pages 296-303
Time Optimal Portfolio Selection: Mean-variance-efficient Sets for Arithmetic and Geometric Brownian Price Processes....Pages 304-311
Analyzing Multigroup Data with Structural Equation Models....Pages 312-319
Validity of Customized and Adaptive Hybrid Conjoint Analysis....Pages 320-329
Analysis of the Assessments of One’s Values Among Different Cohorts in Age and Sex by Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 330-337
Impacts of Hedging with Futures on Optimal Production Levels....Pages 338-346
How to Integrate Stock Price Jumps into Portfolio Selection....Pages 347-354
A Multivariate GARCH-M Model for Exchange Rates in the US, Germany and Japan....Pages 355-363
A Model for Constructing Quadratic Objective Functions and its Applications to Price Adjustments....Pages 364-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Phylogeny Inference by Minimum Conflict....Pages 377-385
Detecting Change-Points in Aircraft Noise Effects....Pages 386-395
A Generalized Estimating Equations Approach to Quantifying the Influence of Meteorological Conditions on Hand Dermatitis....Pages 396-403
Discrimination in Paired Data Situations....Pages 404-413
Classification of Multidimensional Visual Field Data for Glaucoma Diagnosis....Pages 414-420
Quality of Life of Cancer Patients: A Multi-set Analysis....Pages 421-429
A New Approach on Nonparametric Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance....Pages 430-437
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
GERHARD (German Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory)....Pages 441-450
Automatic Labelling of References for Internet Information Systems....Pages 451-459
Architecture and Retrieval Methods of a Search Assistant for Scientific Libraries....Pages 460-468
Computer Aided Evaluations of Linguistic Atlases: From Automatic Classification to Dialectometry....Pages 469-478
Structured Phrases for Indexing and Retrieval of Research Topics....Pages 479-487
Erratum to: Facility Location Planning with Qualitative Location Factors....Pages 493-493
Back Matter....Pages 489-492