Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium

1: Data Analysis and Classification.- New Developments in Latent Variable Models.- Regression-Type Models for Kohonen's Self-Organizing Networks.- Relational Data Analysis, Discrimination and Classification.- Data Types and Information: Beyond the Current Practice of Data Analysis.- Two-Mode Three-Way Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling with Constraints on Asymmetry.- Regularized Discriminant Analysis with Optimally Scaled Data.- Recurrence Properties in Two-Mode Hierarchical Clustering.- On Pyramidal Classification in the Delimitation of Climatic Regions in Catalonia.- On the Modal Understanding of Triadic Contexts.- Clustering and Scaling: Grouping Variables in Burt Matrices.- Standardisation of Data Set under Different Measurement Scales.- Neural Networks for Two-Group Classification Problems with Monotonicity Hints.- A Bridge from the Nearest Neighbour to the Fixed Bandwidth in Nonparametric Functional Estimation.- Clustering Techniques for the Detection of Business Cycles.- Simulated Annealing Optimization for Two-mode Partitioning.- 2: Computer Science, Computational Statistics, and Data Mining.- Competitiveness of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Intelligent Data Analysis via Linguistic Data Summaries: A Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Algorithm Selection Support for Classification.- Society of Knowledge - Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Information Processing in Virtual Networks.- What is Computational Statistics?.- A Development Framework for Nature Analogic Heuristics.- Systematizing and Evaluating Data Mining Methods.- On Textures: A Sketch of a Texture-Based Image Segmentation Approach.- Automatic Texture Classification by Visual Properties.- Java Servlets versus CGI - Implications for Remote Data Analysis.- Generating Automatically Local Feature Groups of Complexand Deformed Objects.- Decision Tree Construction by Association Rules.- Learning Complex Similarity Measures.- Graphical Programming in Statistics: The XGPL Prototype.- 3: Management Science, Marketing, and Finance.- Measuring Brand Loyalty on the Individual Level: a Comparative Study.- Facility Location Planning with Qualitative Location Factors.- Testing the Multinomial Logit Model.- Time Optimal Portfolio Selection: Mean-variance-efficient Sets for Arithmetic and Geometric Brownian Price Processes.- Analyzing Multigroup Data with Structural Equation Models.- Validity of Customized and Adaptive Hybrid Conjoint Analysis.- Analysis of the Assessments of One's Values Among Different Cohorts in Age and Sex by Multidimensional Scaling.- Impacts of Hedging with Futures on Optimal Production Levels.- How to Integrate Stock Price Jumps into Portfolio Selection.- A Multivariate GARCH-M Model for Exchange Rates in the US, Germany and Japan.- A Model for Constructing Quadratic Objective Functions and its Applications to Price Adjustments.- 4: Biology, Genome Analysis, and Medicine.- Phylogeny Inference by Minimum Conflict.- Detecting Change-Points in Aircraft Noise Effects.- A Generalized Estimating Equations Approach to Quantifying the Influence of Meteorological Conditions on Hand Dermatitis.- Discrimination in Paired Data Situations.- Classification of Multidimensional Visual Field Data for Glaucoma Diagnosis.- Quality of Life of Cancer Patients: A Multi-set Analysis.- A New Approach on Nonparametric Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance.- 5: Text Analysis and Information Retrieval.- GERHARD (German Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory).- Automatic Labelling of References for Internet Information Systems.- Architecture and Retrieval Methods of a Search Assistant forScientific Libraries.- Computer Aided Evaluations of Linguistic Atlases: Prom Automatic Classification to Dialectometry.- Structured Phrases for Indexing and Retrieval of Research Topics.- Author and Subject Index.