This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges occurring at the interface of
research fields such as e.g. data analysis data mining and knowledge discovery computer
science operations research and statistics. In addition to theory-oriented contributions
various application areas are included. Moreover traditional classification research
directions concerning network data graphs and social relationships as well as statistical
musicology describe examples for current interest fields tackled by the authors. The book
comprises a total of 55 selected papers presented at the Joint Conference of the German
Classification Society (GfKl) the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) and the
Symposium of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) in 2011.?