Classification, Automation, and New Media

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 AutomaticConversion 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.