Rudiger Klar & Berthold Lausen 
Information and Classification [PDF ebook] 
Concepts, Methods and Applications Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation e.V." University of Dortmund, April 1-3, 1992

In many fields of science and practice large amounts of dataand informationare collected for analyzing and visualizinglatent structures as orderings or classifications forexample. This volume presents refereed and revised versionsof 52 papers selected from the contributions of the 16th Annual Conference of the "German Classification Society". The papers are organized in three major sections on Data Analysis and Classification (1), Information Retrieval, Knowledge Processing and Software (2), Applications and Special Topics (3). Moreover, the papers were grouped andordered within the major sections. So, in the first sectionwe find papers on Classification Methods, Fuzzy Classification, Multidimensional Scaling, Discriminant Analysis and Conceptual Analysis. The second sectioncontains papers on Neural Networks and Computational Linguisticsin addition to the mentioned fields. Anessential part of the third section attends to Sequence Dataand Tree Reconstruction as well as Data Analysis and Informatics in Medicine. As special topics the volumepresents applications in Thesauri, Archaeology, Musical Science and Psychometrics.