The book provides new developments in classification and data analysis, and presents new topics which are of central interest to modern statistics. In particular, these include classification theory, multivariate data analysis, multi-way data, proximity structure analysis, new software for classification and data analysis, and applications in social, economic, medical and other sciences. For many of these topics, this book provides a systematic state of the art written by top researchers in the world. This book will serve as a helpful introduction to the area of classification and data...

When dealing with the design or with the application of any technical system, which is not quite simple and trivial, one has to face to the problem to determine the allowable de viations of the system functions and the optimal vector of system parameter tolerances. The need for the solution of this problem is stimulated with various serious economic and maite nance aspects, between them the tendency to reach the minimal production cost, the maximal system operation reliability are the most frequent. Suppose that we are dealing with an system S, consisting of N components represented by the...