Information and Classification: Concepts, Methods and Applications Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the “Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V.” University of Dortmund, April 1–3, 1992

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Relational Approach to Split Decomposition....Pages 123-131
Some New Useful Representations of Dissimilarities in Mathematical Classification....Pages 132-144
A Comparison of Two Methods for Global Optimization in Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 145-155
Directional Analysis of Three-Way Skew-Symmetric Matrices....Pages 156-161
Clustering in Low-Dimensional Space....Pages 162-173
The Construction of Neighbour-Regions in Two Dimensions for Prediction with Multi-Level Categorical Variables....Pages 174-189
Different Geometric Approaches to Correspondence Analysis of Multivariate Data....Pages 190-200
Nonlinear Biplots for Nonlinear Mappings....Pages 201-213
Hierarchical Clustering of Sampled Functions....Pages 3-16
Spatial Clustering of Species Based on Quadrat Sampling....Pages 17-23
A k n -Nearest Neighbour Algorithm for Unimodal Clusters....Pages 24-30
Asymptotic Robustness in Cluster-Analysis for the Case of Tukey-Huber Distortions....Pages 31-39
Choosing the Number of Component Clusters in the Mixture-Model Using a New Informational Complexity Criterion of the Inverse-Fisher Information Matrix....Pages 40-54
Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Partitions....Pages 55-60
Fuzzy Clustering by Minimizing the Total Hypervolume....Pages 61-71
Conceptual Data Systems....Pages 72-84
Conceptual Clustering via Convex-Ordinal Structures....Pages 85-98
Diagrams of Similarity Lattices....Pages 99-107
Approximate Galois Lattices of Formal Concepts....Pages 108-112
Representation of Data by Pseudoline Arrangements....Pages 113-122
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Gradient Filtering Projections for Recovering Structures in Multivariate Data....Pages 214-217
Classification with Set-Valued Decision Functions....Pages 218-224
Canonical Discriminant Analysis: Comparison of Resampling Methods and Convex-Hull Approximation....Pages 225-238
Nonparametric Prediction of Time Series on the Basis of Typical Course Patterns....Pages 239-247
Moving Point Patterns: The Poisson Case....Pages 248-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Classification Properties of Communicating Neural Networks....Pages 291-300
Knowledge Extraction from Self-Organizing Neural Networks....Pages 301-306
Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Visualisation and Classification....Pages 307-313
Interactively Displaying Ultrametric and Additive Trees....Pages 374-383
 Anaglyphen 3D — A Program for the Interactive Representation of Three-Dimensional Perspective Plots of Statistical Data....Pages 384-389
HyDi: Integration of Hypermedia and Expert System Technology for Technical Diagnosis....Pages 314-322
Classification and Learning of Similarity Measures....Pages 323-334
Context Sensitive Knowledge Processing....Pages 335-345
An Efficient Application of a Rule-Based System....Pages 346-355
Acquisition of Syntactical Knowledge from Text....Pages 356-365
Generating Topic-Based Links in a Hypertext-System for News....Pages 366-373
Representations, Models and Abstractions in Probabilistic Information Retrieval....Pages 259-267
Fuzzy Graphs as a Basic Tool for Agglomerative Clustering and Information Retrieval....Pages 268-281
The Various Roles of Information Structures....Pages 282-290
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Discovering Consensus Molecular Sequences....Pages 393-402
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Alignment and Hierarchical Clustering Method for Strings....Pages 403-412
More Reliable Phylogenies by Properly Weighted Nucleotide Substitutions....Pages 413-420
Caminalcules and Didaktozoa: Imaginary Organisms as Test-Examples for Systematics....Pages 421-433
Multivariate Analysis of the Process of Acclimation of Physiologic Variables....Pages 434-442
Classification of EEG Signals into General Stages of Anesthesia in Real-Time Using Autoregressive Models....Pages 443-451
Automatic Segmentation and Classification of Multiparametric Image Data in Medicine....Pages 452-460
Pseudoroots as Descriptors for a Thesaurus Based on Weidtman’s Diagnosis Table of Pediatrics....Pages 461-468
An Approach to a Space Related Thesaurus....Pages 469-477
Classification of Archæological Sands by Particle Size Analysis....Pages 478-489
The Analysis of Stratigraphic Data with Particular Reference to Zonation Problems....Pages 490-499
Classification Criterion and the Universals in the Organization of a Musical Text....Pages 500-509
A Two-Mode Clustering Study of Situations and Their Features....Pages 510-517