New developments in classification and data analysis : proceedings of the meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society University of Bologna September 22 24 2003 ; with 66 tables The volume presents new developments in data analysis and classification. Particular attention is devoted to clustering discrimination data analysis and statistics as well as applications in biology finance and social sciences. The reader will find theory and algorithms on recent technical and methodological developments and many application papers showing the empirical usefulness of the newly developed solutions