Classification and Knowledge Organization

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Section 1: Data Analysis and Classification.- Probability Models for Convex Clusters.- Multidimensional Scaling: Analyzing Multineuronal Spike Patterns.- Fixed Point Clusters and Their Relation to Stochastic Models.- A Metric Approach for Ordinal Regression.- Graphical Stability of Data Analysing Software.- Recent Developments in Three-Way Data Analysis: A Showcase of Methods and Examples.- A Hybrid Global Optimization Algorithm for Multidimensional Scaling.- Ordinal Regression.- Numerical Algorithms for Multidimensional Scaling.- High Dimensional Clustering Using Parallel Coordinates and the Grand Tour.- Section 2: Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition.- A Symbolic Representation for Patterns in Time Series Using Definitive Clause Grammars.- Neural Networks: A Statistician's (Possible) View.- Dynamic Supervised Learning: Some Basic Issues and Application Aspects.- A Hierarchical Neural Network Model for Pattern Recognition.- Section 3: Statistical Models and Methods.- Markov Random Field Models with Spatially Varying Coefficients.- Distribution of a Likelihood Ratio Statistic for Spatial Disease Clusters.- Biased Methods of Discrimination in High Dimensions: A Comparative Assessment.- A One-Step Optimization Procedure for the ARFIMA Processes.- GARCH Models with Outliers.- Minimum Volume Sets in Statistics: Recent Developments.- Fusion of Data Sets in Multivariate Linear Regression with Errors-in- Variables.- Discriminant Analysis for Directional Data Exemplified in a Concrete Case.- Combination of Tests and Sequential Classification.- Classes of Influential Observations.- Bayesian Non-Linear Latent Variable Models.- Section 4: Information Systems: Design and Implementation.- Case Based Software Engineering CBSE - The Example of a Store Control System.- Optimization in Probabilistic Logic for Decision Support Systems.- Learning Strategies for Managing New and Innovative Products.- Interoperable Database Systems.- Consistent Completion of Incomplete Data Objects.- Towards a Case-Based Assistant for the Conceptual Modelling of Information Systems.- Foundational Aspects of Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Scientific Domains.- Section 5: Text Analysis and Information Retrieval.- A Planning-Based Approach to Intelligent Information Retrieval in Text Databases.- 3D-Navigation in Virtual Information Spaces: From Text-Based Retrieval to Cognitive User Interaction.- A Note on Intelligent Information Retrieval Tools in the World Wide Web.- Computer-Aided Methods for Typification in Qualitative Social Research.- Classification of Text Analysis Software.- Computer Aided Text Analysis and Typology Construction.- Rotwang's Children: Information Ecology and the Internet.- Network Approaches in Text Analysis.- Qualitative Software and Analysis Structures: Solving Problems or Creating Them?.- Computer Tools for Grounded Theory: Introducing ATLAS/ti for Windows 95.- Section 6: Applications in Medicine.- Some Issues in the Comparison of Diagnostic Tests from a Paired Experiment.- Formal Modeling of Medical Concept Systems Considering Part-Whole Relations.- Classification of Oligodendrogliomas Using Neural Networks.- Statistical Methods to Estimate the Impact of Risk Factors on the Disease Load in a Population.- Neural Networks for Classification of Image Data in Quantitative Pathology.- Variations on the Shapley Solution for Partitioning Risks in Epidemiology.- Generalized Regression Trees Applied to Longitudinal Nutritional Survey Data.- Conceptual Complexity in Biomedical Terminologies: The UMLS Approach.- Sun Protection of Children: Changing Patterns of Preventive Knowledge and Behaviour.- A Natural Language Understanding System for Knowledge-Based Analysis of Medical Texts.- On the Development and Validation of Classification Schemes in Survival Data.- Use of Crossvalidation to Assess Diagnostic Classification Schemes of Atopic Dermatitis.- Differences of Representing a Conventional Classification by the Compositional Concept Representation Languages BERNWARD and GRAIL.- The Freiburg Center of Data Analysis and Model Building (FDM): An Interim Report about an Interdisciplinary Coorperation.- Realization of a Medical Data Dictionary in a Relational Database Management System.- Section 7: Applications in Economics and Social Sciences.- Two-Mode Overlapping Clustering With Applications to Simultaneous Benefit Segmentation and Market Structuring.- An Application of Two-Mode Classification to Analyze the Statistical Software Market.- Correspondence Analysis of Square Tables, with an Application to Social Mobility.- Identifying Benchmarking-Partners Using Two-Mode Classification.- Supporting the Search for Final Scenarios by the Fuzzy-C-Means Algorithm.- Two-Mode Classification in Advertising Research.- Neural Networks as Instruments for Automotive Market Segmentation.- Section 8: Applications in Archaeology, Biology, Linguistics and Dialectometry.- Seriation in Archaeology: Modelling, Methods and Prior Information.- Probabilistic Aspects of Sequence Repeats and Sequencing by Hybridization.- On the Equivalence of Two Tree Mapping Measures.- Deriving Grammars from Large Corpora.- Investigation of the Language in Germany and Austria Using Statistical Methods.- Current Trends in Dialectometry: The Handling of Synonym Feature Realizations.- Interactive Graphical Analysis of Regional Dialects.- Subject Index (including List of Authors).