Classification Automation and New Media : Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V. University of Passau March 15—17 2000 Given the huge amount of information in the internet and in practically every domain of knowledge that we are facing today knowledge discovery calls for automation. The book deals with methods from classification and data analysis that respond effectively to this rapidly growing challenge. The interested reader will find new methodological insights as well as applications in economics management science finance and marketing and in pattern recognition biology health and archaeology