Information systems and data analysis
Subtitle: prospects, foundations, applications : proceedings of the 17th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V. University of Kaiserslautern, March 3-5, 1993
By: Hans-Hermann Bock, Wolfgang Lenski, Michael M. Richter, eds.
Contributors: Bock, Hans Hermann.; Lenski, Wolfgang, 1952-; Richter, Michael M., 1938-
Series: Studies in classification, data analysis, and knowledge organization
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Information technology -- Congresses..; System analysis -- Congresses.
Description: The subject of this book is the analysis and processing of structural information or quantitative data, with a special emphasis on classification-related problems and methods. Various different approaches are presented including theoretical, statistical, structural, mathematical, conceptual, linguistic and computational aspects. These methodological investigations are completed by illustrative applications from practice, originating from quite different fields such as artificial intelligence, computer science, data bases, libraries, knowledge-based systems, medical diagnostics, molecular biology and genome analysis, multivariate statistics, marketing, sociology, biological taxonomy, archeology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.