The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) which was held in Cracow, Poland, July 16-19, 2002. All originally submitted papers were subject to a reviewing process by two independent referees, a procedure which resulted in the selection of the 53 articles presented in this volume. These articles relate to theoretical investigations as well as to practical applications and cover a wide range of topics in the broad domain of classifi- cation, data analysis and related methods. If we try...

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...