Classification, clustering, and data analysis. Recent advances and applications. Papers presented at the eighth conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), Cracow, Poland, July 16--19, 2002 (Q1400355)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding conference has been reviewed (see Zbl 0976.00026). Indexed articles: \textit{Bodjanova, Slavka}, Partial defuzzification of fuzzy clusters, 27-33 [Zbl 1032.62057] \textit{Castillo, William; Trejos, Javier}, Two-mode partitioning: Review of methods and application of tabu search, 43-51 [Zbl 1040.62053] \textit{Chavent, Marie; Lechevallier, Yves}, Dynamical clustering of interval data: Optimization of an adequacy criterion based on Hausdorff distance, 53-60 [Zbl 1032.62058] \textit{Garel, Bernard; Goussanou, Franck}, Removing separation conditions in a 1 against 3-components Gaussian mixture problem, 61-73 [Zbl 1032.62013] \textit{Pötzelberger, Klaus}, Quantization of models: Local approach and asymptotically optimal partitions, 97-112 [Zbl 1185.62119] \textit{Schöll, Joachim; Paschinger, Elisabeth}, Cluster analysis by restricted random walks, 113-120 [Zbl 1032.62062] \textit{Jollois, François-Xavier; Nadif, Mohamed; Govaert, Gérard}, Assessing the number of clusters of the latent class model, 139-146 [Zbl 1032.62060] \textit{Lerman, Israel; Pinto da Costa, Joaquim; Silva, Helena}, Validation of very large data sets clustering by means of a nonparametric linear criterion, 147-157 [Zbl 1032.62061] \textit{Gardner, Sugnet; le Roux, Niel}, Biplot methodology for discriminant analysis based upon robust methods and principal curves, 169-176 [Zbl 1032.62055] \textit{Hothorn, Torsten; Lausen, Berthold}, Bagging combined classifers, 177-184 [Zbl 1032.62056] \textit{Vos, Hans J.}, Application of Bayesian decision theory to constrained classification networks, 185-190 [Zbl 1032.62005] \textit{Bavaud, François}, Quotient dissimilarities, Euclidean embeddability, and Huygens' weak principle, 195-202 [Zbl 1033.62055] \textit{Gallegos, María Teresa}, Maximum likelihood clustering with outliers, 247-255 [Zbl 1032.62059] \textit{Skibicki, Marcin}, Maximization of measure of allowable sample sizes region in stratified sampling, 263-269 [Zbl 1032.62010] \textit{Wywiał, Janusz}, On estimation of population averages on the basis of cluster sample, 271-277 [Zbl 1185.62029] \textit{Billard, Lynne; Diday, Edwin}, Symbolic regression analysis, 281-288 [Zbl 1185.62129] \textit{Diday, Edwin}, Mixture decomposition of distributions by copulas, 297-310 [Zbl 1032.62048] \textit{Schmidt, Heiko A.; von Haeseler, Arndt}, Quartet trees as a tool to reconstruct large trees from sequences, 379-388 [Zbl 1033.92025] \textit{Gatnar, Eugeniusz}, Tree-based models in statistics: Three decades of research, 399-407 [Zbl 1185.62006] \textit{Torgo, Luis}, Computationally efficient linear regression trees, 409-415 [Zbl 1032.62065] \textit{Bohnacker, Ulrich; Dehning, Lars; Franke, Jürgen; Renz, Ingrid}, Textual analysis of customer statements for quality control and help desk support, 437-445 [Zbl 1185.62200] \textit{Domański, Czesław; Kondrasiuk, Jarosław}, AHP as support for strategy decision making in banking, 447-453 [Zbl 1254.91100] \textit{Peters, Andrea; Hothorn, Torsten; Lausen, Berthold}, Glaucoma diagnosis by indirect classifiers, 463-470 [Zbl 1032.62106]