Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems : Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation e.V., Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, March 12-14, 2003

The volume presents innovations in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are discrimination and clustering, data analysis and statistics, as well as applications in marketing, finance, and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of applications demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques.