Data science, classification, and related methods. Proceedings of the 5th conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS-96), Kobe, Japan, March 27--30, 1996 (Q1381100)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The first conference (1987) has been announced (see Zbl 0732.00020). Indexed articles: \textit{Bock, Hans H.}, Probabilistic aspects in classification, 3-21 [Zbl 0894.62073] \textit{Hayashi, Chikio}, What is data science? Fundamental concepts and a heuristic example, 40-51 [Zbl 0894.62008] \textit{Heiser, Willem J.}, Fitting graphs and trees with multidimensional scaling methods, 52-62 [Zbl 0889.92036] \textit{Nicolau, F. Costa; Bacelar-Nicolau, H.}, Some trends in the classification of variables, 89-98 [Zbl 0894.62075] \textit{Rasson, Jean-Paul}, Convexity methods in classification, 99-106 [Zbl 0894.62076] \textit{Lozano, J. A.; Larrañaga, P.; Graña, M.}, Partitional cluster analysis with genetic algorithms: Searching for the number of clusters, 117-124 [Zbl 0889.92038] \textit{Van Cutsem, Bernard; Ycart, Bernard}, Random dendrograms for classifiability testing, 133-144 [Zbl 0895.62066] \textit{Fichet, Bernard}, The \(L_p\)-product of ultrametric spaces and the corresponding product of hierarchies, 145-153 [Zbl 1126.91408] \textit{Levin, Mark Sh.}, Towards comparison of decomposable systems, 154-161 [Zbl 0889.92039] \textit{Simeone, Bruno; Vichi, Maurizio}, Consensus of hierarchical classifications, 170-181 [Zbl 0897.62062] \textit{Lehel, J.; McMorris, F. R.; Powers, R. C.}, Consensus methods for pyramids and other hypergraphs, 187-190 [Zbl 0894.05044] \textit{Batagelj, Vladimir; Ferligoj, Anuška; Doreian, Patrick}, Fitting pre-specified blockmodels, 199-206 [Zbl 0898.92037] \textit{Ho, Tu Bao; Nguyen, Trong Dung; Kimura, Masayuki}, Induction of decision trees based on the rough set theory, 215-222 [Zbl 0893.68122] \textit{Mucha, Hans-Joachim; Siegmund-Schultze, Rainer; Dübon, Karl}, Adaptive cluster analysis techniques - Software and applications, 231-238 [Zbl 0895.62070] \textit{Sibuya, Masaaki}, The most random partition of a finite set and its application to classification, 241-246 [Zbl 0897.62061] \textit{Honda, Masayuki; Konishi, Sadanori}, Resampling methods for error rate estimation in discriminant analysis, 268-275 [Zbl 0894.62071] \textit{Yoshimura, Isao; Yoshimura, Mitsu; Matsuda, Shin-ichi}, Choice of multiple representative signatures for on-line signature verification using a clustering procedure, 284-291 [Zbl 0897.62064] \textit{Miyamoto, Sadaaki; Agusta, Yudi}, Algorithms for \(L_1\) and \(L_p\) fuzzy \(c\)-means and their convergence, 295-302 [Zbl 0897.62065] \textit{Bodjanova, Slavka}, General approach to the construction of measures of fuzziness of fuzzy \(K\)-partitions, 303-311 [Zbl 0897.92043] \textit{Imaizumi, Tadashi}, A proposal of an extended model of ADCLUS model, 320-327 [Zbl 0894.62079] \textit{Diday, Edwin; Emilion, Richard}, Capacities, credibilities in analysis of probabilistic objects by histograms and lattices, 353-357 [Zbl 0894.62007] \textit{Ichino, Manabu; Yaguchi, Hiroyuki}, Symbolic pattern classifiers based on the Cartesian system model, 358-369 [Zbl 0893.68131] \textit{de A. T.de Carvalho, Francisco}, Extension based proximities between constrained Boolean symbolic objects, 370-378 [Zbl 0894.62006] \textit{Ho, Tu Bao}, Unsupervised concept learning using rough concept analysis, 404-411 [Zbl 0893.68123] \textit{Carroll, J. Douglas; Chaturvedi, Anil}, Fitting the CANDCLUS/MUMCLUS models with partitioning and other constraints, 496-505 [Zbl 0899.62080] \textit{Meulman, Jacqueline J.}, A distance-based biplot for multidimensional scaling of multivariate data, 506-517 [Zbl 0902.62074] \textit{Yanai, Haruo}, Generalized canonical correlation analysis with linear constraints, 539-546 [Zbl 0894.62069] \textit{Romanazzi, Mario}, Missing data imputation in multivariate analysis, 555-562 [Zbl 0894.62082] \textit{Murakami, Takashi}, Tucker2 as a second-order principal component analysis, 575-586 [Zbl 0894.62070] \textit{Mizuta, Masahiro}, Bounded algebraic curve fitting for multidimensional data using the least-squares distance, 610-616 [Zbl 0891.65008]