Classification, Automation, and New Media: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft Für Klassifikation E. V. , University of Passau, March 15--17 2000

given The Huge Amount Of Information In The Internet And In Practically Every Domain Of Knowledge That We Are Facing Today, Knowledge Discovery Calls For Automation. The Book Deals With Methods From Classification And Data Analysis That Respond Effectively To This Rapidly Growing Challenge. The Interested Reader Will Find New Methodological Insights As Well As Applications In Economics, Management Science, Finance, And Marketing, And In Pattern Recognition, Biology, Health, And Archaeology. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Clustering and Models....Pages 3-16 Some New and Some Old Results for the Polytomous Rasch Model....Pages 17-27 Some Basic Results on the Extension of Quasi-likelihood Based Measurement Error Correction to Multivariate and Flexible Structural Models....Pages 29-36 On the Optimal Number of Clusters in Histogram Clustering....Pages 37-45 The Dual Dynamic Factor Analysis Models....Pages 47-58 Joint Non-symmetrical Correspondence Analysis with Ordered Categories....Pages 59-66 Regression Analysis of Extremely Multicollinear Data....Pages 67-74 Modern Data Analysis: A Clash of Paradigms....Pages 75-85 Two-mode Clustering with Genetic Algorithms....Pages 87-93 Exact Tests for the Comparison of Binary Data Structures in Time....Pages 95-106 Connected Maximum Split Clustering of Ladder Graphs....Pages 107-114 A Generalization of Two-mode Three-way Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 115-122 Central Limit Theorem for Probabilities of Correct Classification....Pages 123-130 A New Model for the Analysis of Multitrait-multimethod Data....Pages 131-138 Discrete and Continuous Models for Two-way Data....Pages 139-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Towards Feature Fusion — A Classifier on the Basis of Automatically Generated Significant Contour Sections....Pages 151-158 Convex Discriminant Analysis Tools for Non Convex Pattern Recognition....Pages 159-166 Sparse Kernel Feature Analysis....Pages 167-178 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Exploring Association Rules by Interactive Graphics....Pages 181-188 Classification of Texts with Support Vector Machines: An Examination of the Efficiency of Kernels and Data-transformations....Pages 189-197 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Text Mining with the Help of Cohesion Trees....Pages 199-206 New Features of Categorical Principal Components Analysis for Complicated Data Sets, Including Data Mining....Pages 207-217 Supplement of Information: Data Integration by Classification of Pairs of Records....Pages 219-226 The Completion of Missing Values by Neural Nets for Data Mining....Pages 227-234 Knowledge Landscapes: Clustering Hypermedia Course Content for Efficient Overviews....Pages 235-243 Simplification of Knowledge Discovery using “Structure Classification”....Pages 245-252 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 Natural Language-based Specification and Fuzzy Logic for the Multimedia Development Process....Pages 255-263 A Tool System for an Object-oriented Approach to Construction and Maintenance of Hypermedia Documents....Pages 265-272 Recommendations for Virtual Universities from Observed User Behavior....Pages 273-280 Virtual Dialect Areas in the Internet: “Townchats”....Pages 281-288 The Navigation Problem in the World-Wide-Web....Pages 289-297 Mining Web Usage Data for Automatic Site Personalization....Pages 299-312 Integrating Combinatorial Relationships in a Cartography for Web Site Promotion....Pages 313-320 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Common Due Date Scheduling — Straddling Jobs and Due Windows —....Pages 323-332 Currency Derivatives in German Non-financials: Empirical Evidence on Theoretical Approaches....Pages 333-341 Data Visualization and Preparation by Separating Sales Force Data....Pages 343-349 Fuzzy Scenario Evaluation....Pages 351-358 Fair Stock Risk Premiums under Firm-specific Price Jumps....Pages 359-366 What Components Determine Stock Market Returns in the 1990’s?....Pages 367-373 A Comparison of Estimators for Multivariate ARCH Models....Pages 375-382 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Pricing of a New Integrated Risk Reinsurance Product....Pages 383-390 A Multiple Method Approach for Discrimination and Classification in Marketing Research....Pages 391-399 Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Two-mode Cluster Analyses....Pages 401-408 On Volatility Transfers During the Asia Crisis in 1997-1998....Pages 409-418 Front Matter....Pages 419-419 QTL Mapping in Plant Populations....Pages 421-428 Robust Multivariate Methods in Geostatistics....Pages 429-436 Resampling Methods in Physical Mapping....Pages 437-444 Validating Dialect Comparison Methods....Pages 445-452 Rater Classification on the Basis of Latent Features in Responding to Situations....Pages 453-461 Results of Automatic Conversion of Diagnoses from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for Cancer Registration....Pages 463-469 Exploring Roman Brick and Tile by Cluster Analysis with Validation of Results....Pages 471-478 Relief Intensity and the Formation of the Archaeological Record....Pages 479-489 Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Cancer Mortality Rates....Pages 491-498 The Classification of Critical Periods for Melanoma Development due to UV-Radiation....Pages 499-505 Classification in the Prescription of Medicaments....Pages 507-513 Effects of Independent Non-differential Misclassification on the Attributable Risk....Pages 515-522 A New Approach to Discriminant Analysis with Longitudinal Data....Pages 523-529 Back Matter....Pages 531-535