Mathematical Hierarchies and Biology : DIMACS Workshop, November 13-15, 1996

ISBN-13: 9780821807620 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 388 str.

Opis

The mathematical approach to the study of hierarchies presents the theoretical basis for many important areas of current scientific investigation. Biology has benefited from this research and has also stimulated the mathematical study of hierarchies. This collection presents papers devoted to theoretical, algorithmical and application issues related to: reconstruction hierarchies (trees or ranking) from (dis)similarity or entity-to-character data; using hierarchies for modelling evolution and other processes; and combining (gene) trees. The papers in this volume provide a contemporary sample of many results in hierarchy theory with applications in biology, psychology, data analysis and systems engineering.