Advances in Data Analysis Data Handling and Business Intelligence : Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V. Joint Conference with the British Classification Society (BCS) and the Dutch Flemish Classification Society (VOC) Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg July 16 18 2008 Invited Clustering and Classification Mixture Analysis Linguistics and Text Analysis Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Statistical Musicology Banking and Finance Marketing Management Science and Economics Archaeology and Spatial Planning Bio and Health Sciences Exploratory Data Analysis Modeling and Applications. Data Analysis Data Handling and Business Intelligence are research areas at the intersection of computer science artificial intelligence mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as in marketing finance economics engineering linguistics archaeology musicology medical science and biology. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers presented during the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft für Klassifikation GfKl). The conference which was organized in cooperation with the British Classification Society (BCS) and the Dutch Flemish Classification Society (VOC) was hosted by Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg Germany in July 2008.