This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenging problems occurring at the
interface of research fields such as data analysis computer science operations research and
statistics. It includes theoretically oriented contributions as well as papers from various
application areas where knowledge from different research directions is needed to find an
adequate analysis and interpretation of the observed data that match optimally the underlying
practical situations. Beside traditional classification research the book focuses also on
current interests in fields such as the analysis of network data graphs and social
relationships as well as on statistical musicology.
