Data Analysis Data Handling and Business Intelligence are research areas at the intersection
of computer science artificial intelligence mathematics and statistics. They cover general
methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as in marketing
finance economics engineering linguistics archaeology musicology medical science and
biology. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers presented during the 32nd
Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft für Klassifikation GfKl).
The conference which was organized in cooperation with the British Classification Society
(BCS) and the Dutch Flemish Classification Society (VOC) was hosted by
Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg Germany in July 2008.
