Download or read book Challenges at the Interface of Data Analysis, Computer Science, and Optimization written by Wolfgang Gaul and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges 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 the best possible interpretation of data for the underlying problem situations. Beside traditional classification research, the book focuses on current interests in fields such as the analysis of social relationships as well as statistical musicology.