| Clustering | |
| Mixture Models for Classification | p. 3 |
| How to Choose the Number of Clusters: The Cramer Multiplicity Solution | p. 15 |
| Model Selection Criteria for Model-Based Clustering of Categorical Time Series Data: A Monte Carlo Study | p. 23 |
| Cluster Quality Indexes for Symbolic Classification - An Examination | p. 31 |
| Semi-Supervised Clustering: Application to Image Segmentation | p. 39 |
| A Method for Analyzing the Asymptotic Behavior of the Walk Process in Restricted Random Walk Cluster Algorithm | p. 51 |
| Cluster and Select Approach to Classifier Fusion | p. 59 |
| Random Intersection Graphs and Classification | p. 67 |
| Optimized Alignment and Visualization of Clustering Results | p. 75 |
| Finding Cliques in Directed Weighted Graphs Using Complex Hermitian Adjacency Matrices | p. 83 |
| Text Clustering with String Kernels in R | p. 91 |
| Automatic Classification of Functional Data with Extremal Information | p. 99 |
| Typicality Degrees and Fuzzy Prototypes for Clustering | p. 107 |
| On Validation of Hierarchical Clustering | p. 115 |
| Classification | |
| Rearranging Classified Items in Hierarchies Using Categorization Uncertainty | p. 125 |
| Localized Linear Discriminant Analysis | p. 133 |
| Calibrating Classifier Scores into Probabilities | p. 141 |
| Nonlinear Support Vector Machines Through Iterative Majorization and I-Splines | p. 149 |
| Deriving Consensus Rankings from Benchmarking Experiments | p. 163 |
| Classification of Contradiction Patterns | p. 171 |
| Selecting SVM Kernels and Input Variable Subsets in Credit Scoring Models | p. 179 |
| Data and Time Series Analysis | |
| Simultaneous Selection of Variables and Smoothing Parameters in Geoadditive Regression Models | p. 189 |
| Modelling and Analysing Interval Data | p. 197 |
| Testing for Genuine Multimodality in Finite Mixture Models: Application to Linear Regression Models | p. 209 |
| Happy Birthday to You, Mr. Wilcoxon! Invariance, Semiparametric Efficiency, and Ranks | p. 217 |
| Equivalent Number of Degrees of Freedom for Neural Networks | p. 229 |
| Model Choice for Panel Spatial Models: Crime Modeling in Japan | p. 237 |
| A Boosting Approach to Generalized Monotonic Regression | p. 245 |
| From Eigenspots to Fisherspots - Latent Spaces in the Nonlinear Detection of Spot Patterns in a Highly Varying Background | p. 255 |
| Identifying and Exploiting Ultrametricity | p. 263 |
| Factor Analys is for Extraction of Structural Components and Prediction in Time Series | p. 273 |
| Classification of the U.S. Business Cycle by Dynamic Linear Discriminant Analysis | p. 281 |
| Examination of Several Results of Different Cluster Analyses with a Separate View to Balancing the Economic and Ecological Performance Potential of Towns and Cities | p. 289 |
| Visualization and Scaling Methods | |
| VOS: A New Method for Visualizing Similarities Between Objects | p. 299 |
| Multidimensional Scaling of Asymmetric Proximities with a Dominance Point | p. 307 |
| Single Cluster Visualization to Optimize Air Traffic Management | p. 319 |
| Rescaling Proximity Matrix Using Entropy Analyzed by INDSCAL | p. 327 |
| Information Retrieval, Data and Web Mining Canonical Forms for Frequent Graph Mining | p. 337 |
| Applying Clickstream Data Mining to Real-Time Web Crawler Detection and Containment Using ClickTips Platform | p. 351 |
| Plagiarism Detection Without Reference Collections | p. 359 |
| Putting Successor Variety Stemming to Work | p. 367 |
| Collaborative Filtering Based on User Trends | p. 375 |
| Investigating Unstructured Texts with Latent Semantic Analysis | p. 383 |
| Marketing, Management Science and Economics | |
| Heterogeneity in Preferences for Odd Prices | p. 393 |
| Classification of Reference Models | p. 401 |
| Adaptive Conjoint Analysis for Pricing Music Downloads | p. 409 |
| Improving the Probabilistic Modeling of Market Basket Data | p. 417 |
| Classification in Marketing Research by Means of LEM2-generated Rules | p. 425 |
| Pricing Energy in a Multi-Utility Market | p. 433 |
| Disproportionate Samples in Hierarchical Bayes CBC Analysis | p. 441 |
| Building on the Arules Infrastructure for Analyzing Transaction Data with R | p. 449 |
| Balanced Scorecard Simulator - A Tool for Stochastic Business Figures | p. 457 |
| Integration of Customer Value into Revenue Management | p. 465 |
| Women's Occupational Mobility and Segregation in the Labour Market: Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling | p. 473 |
| Multilevel Dimensions of Consumer Relationships in the Healthcare Service Market M-L IRT vs. M-L SEM Approach | p. 481 |
| Data Mining in Higher Education | p. 489 |
| Attribute Aware Anonymous Recommender Systems | p. 497 |
| Banking and Finance | |
| On the Notions and Properties of Risk and Risk Aversion in the Time Optimal Approach to Decision Making | p. 507 |
| A Model of Rational Choice Among Distributions of Goal Reaching Times | p. 515 |
| On Goal Reaching Time Distributions Estimated from DAX Stock Index Investments | p. 523 |
| Credit Risk of Collaterals: Examining the Systematic Linkage between Insolvencies and Physical Assets in Germany | p. 531 |
| Foreign Exchange Trading with Support Vector Machines | p. 539 |
| The Influence of Specific Information on the Credit Risk Level | p. 547 |
| Bio-and Health Sciences | |
| Enhancing Bluejay with Scalability, Genome Comparison and Microarray Visualization | p. 557 |
| Discovering Biomarkers for Myocardial Infarction from SELDI-TOF Spectra | p. 569 |
| Joint Analysis of In-situ Hybridization and Gene Expression Data | p. 577 |
| Unsupervised Decision Trees Structured by Gene Ontology (GO-UDTs) for the Interpretation of Microarray Data | p. 585 |
| Linguistics and Text Analysis | |
| Clustering of Polysemic Words | p. 595 |
| Classifying German Questions According to Ontology-Based Answer Types | p. 603 |
| The Relationship of Word Length and Sentence Length: The Inter-Textual Perspective | p. 611 |
| Comparing the Stability of Different Clustering Results of Dialect Data | p. 619 |
| Part-of-Speech Discovery by Clustering Contextual Features | p. 627 |
| Statistical Musicology and Sound Classification | |
| A Probabilistic Framework for Audio-Based Tonal Key and Chord Recognition | p. 637 |
| Using MCMC as a Stochastic Optimization Procedure for Monophonic and Polyphonic Sound | p. 645 |
| Vowel Classification by a Neurophysiologically Parameterized Auditory Model | p. 653 |
| Archaeology | |
| Uncovering the Internal Structure of the Roman Brick and Tile Making in Frankfurt-Nied by Cluster Validation | p. 663 |
| Where Did I See You Before A Holistic Method to Compare and Find Archaeological Artifacts | p. 671 |
| Keywords | p. 681 |
| Author Index | p. 685 |
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