Data Science and Classification

Preface

The 10th IFCS Conference – a Jubilee

Contents

Similarity and Dissimilarity

A Tree-Based Similarity for Evaluating Concept Proximities in an Ontology

Improved Frechet Distance for Time Series

Comparison of Distance Indices Between Partitions

Design of Dissimilarity Measures: A New Dissimilarity Between Species Distribution Areas

Dissimilarities for Web Usage Mining

Properties and Performance of Shape Similarity Measures

Classification and Clustering

Hierarchical Clustering for Boxplot Variables

Evaluation of Allocation Rules Under Some Cost Constraints

Crisp Partitions Induced by a Fuzzy Set

Empirical Comparison of a Monothetic Divisive Clustering Method with the Ward and the k- means Clustering Methods

Model Selection for the Binary Latent Class Model: A Monte Carlo Simulation

Finding Meaningful and Stable Clusters Using Local Cluster Analysis

Comparing Optimal Individual and Collective Assessment Procedures

Network and Graph Analysis

Some Open Problem Sets for Generalized Blockmodeling

Spectral Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling: A Unified View

Analyzing the Structure of U.S. Patents Network

Identifying and Classifying Social Groups: A Machine Learning Approach

Analysis of Symbolic Data

Multidimensional Scaling of Histogram Dissimilarities

Dependence and Interdependence Analysis for Interval- Valued Variables

A New Wasserstein Based Distance for the Hierarchical Clustering of Histogram Symbolic Data

Symbolic Clustering of Large Datasets

A Dynamic Clustering Method for Mixed Feature- Type Symbolic Data

General Data Analysis Methods

Iterated Boosting for Outlier Detection

Sub-species of Homopus Areolatus? Biplots and Small Class Inference with Analysis of Distance

Revised Boxplot Based Discretization as the Kernel of Automatic Interpretation of Classes Using Numerical Variables

Data and Web Mining

Comparison of Two Methods for Detecting and Correcting Systematic Error in High- throughput Screening Data

kNN Versus SVM in the Collaborative Filtering Framework

Mining Association Rules in Folksonomies

Empirical Analysis of Attribute-Aware Recommendation Algorithms with Variable Synthetic Data

Patterns of Associations in Finite Sets of Items

Analysis of Music Data

Generalized N-gram Measures for Melodic Similarity

Evaluating Different Approaches to Measuring the Similarity of Melodies

Using MCMC as a Stochastic Optimization Procedure for Musical Time Series

Local Models in Register Classification by Timbre

Gene and Microarray Analysis

Improving the Performance of Principal Components for Classification of Gene Expression Data Through Feature Selection

A New Efficient Method for Assessing Missing Nucleotides in DNA Sequences in the Framework of a Generic Evolutionary Model

New Efficient Algorithm for Modeling Partial and Complete Gene Transfer Scenarios

List of Reviewers

Key words

Authors