Information Systems and Data Analysis - Prospects - Foundations - Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)

This volume presents a selection of 42 refereed and revised contributions (includ- ing some invited lectures) which were presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation e. V." (GfKl), the German Classification Society. This conference was held at the University of Kaiserslautern from March 3 - 5, 1993 and jointly hosted by the Research Center for Mathematical Logic of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, the University of Kaiserslautern, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH). The local orga- nization was performed by Michael M. Richter, Wolfgang Lenski, Sabine Friedrich, Annette Klein, and Elisabeth Wette-Roch of the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern and the Research Center for Mathematical Logic of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, respectively. The mem- bers of the Scientific Program Committee were Hans-Hermann Bock, PaulO. Degens, Matthias Herfurth, Hans-Joachim Hermes, Rudiger Klar, Rudolf Mathar, Michael M. Richter, and Rudolf Wille.