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.

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1: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Classification.- Clustering and Models.- Some New and Some Old Results for the Polytomous Rasch Model.- Some Basic Results on the Extension of Quasi-likelihood Based Measurement Error Correction to Multivariate and Flexible Structural Models.- On the Optimal Number of Clusters in Histogram Clustering.- The Dual Dynamic Factor Analysis Models.- Joint Non-symmetrical Correspondence Analysis with Ordered Categories.- Regression Analysis of Extremely Multicollinear Data.- Modern Data Analysis: A Clash of Paradigms.- Two-mode Clustering with Genetic Algorithms.- Exact Tests for the Comparison of Binary Data Structures in Time.- Connected Maximum Split Clustering of Ladder Graphs.- A Generalization of Two-mode Three-way Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling.- Central Limit Theorem for Probabilities of Correct Classification.- A New Model for the Analysis of Multitrait-multimethod Data.- Discrete and Continuous Models for Two-way Data.- 2: Pattern Recognition and Automation.- Towards Feature Fusion - A Classifier on the Basis of Automatically Generated Significant Contour Sections.- Convex Discriminant Analysis Tools for Non Convex Pattern Recognition.- Sparse Kernel Feature Analysis.- 3: Data Mining, Information Processing, and Automation.- Exploring Association Rules by Interactive Graphics.- Classification of Texts with Support Vector Machines: An Examination of the Efficiency of Kernels and Data-transformations.- Text Mining with the Help of Cohesion Trees.- New Features of Categorical Principal Components Analysis for Complicated Data Sets, Including Data Mining.- Supplement of Information: Data Integration by Classification of Pairs of Records.- The Completion of Missing Values by Neural Nets for Data Mining.- Knowledge Landscapes: Clustering Hypermedia Course Content for Efficient Overviews.- Simplification of Knowledge Discovery using "Structure Classification".- 4: New Media, Web Mining, and Automation.- Natural Language-based Specification and Fuzzy Logic for the Multimedia Development Process.- A Tool System for an Object-oriented Approach to Construction and Maintenance of Hypermedia Documents.- Recommendations for Virtual Universities from Observed User Behavior.- Virtual Dialect Areas in the Internet: "Townchats".- The Navigation Problem in the World-Wide-Web.- Mining Web Usage Data for Automatic Site Personalization.- Integrating Combinatorial Relationships in a Cartography for Web Site Promotion.- 5: Applications in Management Science, Finance, and Marketing.- Common Due Date Scheduling - Straddling Jobs and Due Windows -.- Currency Derivatives in German Non-financials: Empirical Evidence on Theoretical Approaches.- Data Visualization and Preparation by Separating Sales Force Data.- Fuzzy Scenario Evaluation.- Fair Stock Risk Premiums under Firm-specific Price Jumps.- What Components Determine Stock Market Returns in the 1990's?.- A Comparison of Estimators for Multivariate ARCH Models.- Pricing of a New Integrated Risk Reinsurance Product.- A Multiple Method Approach for Discrimination and Classification in Marketing Research.- Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Two-mode Cluster Analyses.- On Volatility Transfers During the Asia Crisis in 1997-1998.- 6: Applications in Medicine, Biology, Archaeology, and Others.- QTL Mapping in Plant Populations.- Robust Multivariate Methods in Geostatistics.- Resampling Methods in Physical Mapping.- Validating Dialect Comparison Methods.- Rater Classification on the Basis of Latent Features in Responding to Situations.- Results of Automatic Conversion of Diagnoses from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for Cancer Registration.- Exploring Roman Brick and Tile by Cluster Analysis with Validation of Results.- Relief Intensity and the Formation of the Archaeological Record.- Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Cancer Mortality Rates.- The Classification of Critical Periods for Melanoma Development due to UV-Radiation.- Classification in the Prescription of Medicaments.- Effects of Independent Non-differential Misclassification on the Attributable Risk.- A New Approach to Discriminant Analysis with Longitudinal Data.- Author Index.