Mathematical Classification and Clustering

Boris Mirkin

ISBN 10: 146138057X / ISBN 13: 9781461380573

Published by Springer US, Springer US, 2011

About this Item

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - I am very happy to have this opportunity to present the work of Boris Mirkin, a distinguished Russian scholar in the areas of data analysis and decision making methodologies. The monograph is devoted entirely to clustering, a discipline dispersed through many theoretical and application areas, from mathematical statistics and combina torial optimization to biology, sociology and organizational structures. It compiles an immense amount of research done to date, including many original Russian de velopments never presented to the international community before (for instance, cluster-by-cluster versions of the K-Means method in Chapter 4 or uniform par titioning in Chapter 5). The author's approach, approximation clustering, allows him both to systematize a great part of the discipline and to develop many in novative methods in the framework of optimization problems. The optimization methods considered are proved to be meaningful in the contexts of data analysis and clustering. The material presented in this book is quite interesting and stimulating in paradigms, clustering and optimization. On the other hand, it has a substantial application appeal. The book will be useful both to specialists and students in the fields of data analysis and clustering as well as in biology, psychology, economics, marketing research, artificial intelligence, and other scientific disciplines. Panos Pardalos, Series Editor.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mathematical Classification and Clustering
• Publisher: Springer US, Springer US
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 146138057X
• ISBN 13: 9781461380573
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 160H x 25D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 711 grams

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Synopsis

I am very happy to have this opportunity to present the work of Boris Mirkin, a distinguished Russian scholar in the areas of data analysis and decision making methodologies. The monograph is devoted entirely to clustering, a discipline dispersed through many theoretical and application areas, from mathematical statistics and combina­ torial optimization to biology, sociology and organizational structures. It compiles an immense amount of research done to date, including many original Russian de­ velopments never presented to the international community before (for instance, cluster-by-cluster versions of the K-Means method in Chapter 4 or uniform par­ titioning in Chapter 5). The author's approach, approximation clustering, allows him both to systematize a great part of the discipline and to develop many in­ novative methods in the framework of optimization problems. The optimization methods considered are proved to be meaningful in the contexts of data analysis and clustering. The material presented in this book is quite interesting and stimulating in paradigms, clustering and optimization. On the other hand, it has a substantial application appeal. The book will be useful both to specialists and students in the fields of data analysis and clustering as well as in biology, psychology, economics, marketing research, artificial intelligence, and other scientific disciplines. Panos Pardalos, Series Editor.

Review

`The book should be recommended as an inspiring reading to the students and specialists [in the fields listed]. The numerous algorithms suggested can be exploited by data analysis practitioners in various application areas.'
Journal of Global Analysis, 12 (1998)