Trees and Hierarchical Structures: Proceedings of Conference Held at Bielefeld, Frg, Oct. 1987 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387524533 ISBN 13: 9780387524535

Publisher: Springer Verlag, 1990

Synopsis

The notorious non-transitivity of similarity relations is the main problem encountered when - as in taxonomic studies in biology - one wants to base classification schemes on observed similarities and dissimilarities. While recent advances in molecular biology give rise to impressive new and rather abstract data structures which can easily be used as input for automatic classification procedures we are still very much in need of a better and deeper understanding of the many delicate points which need consideration once (semi-)automatic classification procedures are applied to biological or other data. The papers collected in this volume are devoted to precisely this problem. They study various theoretical aspects of three reconstruction methods in biology, and psychology, discuss their value in specific biological contexts, apply tree-like recursion networks in chess programming and indicate a conceptual framework for studying cluster analysis from a purely mathematical point of view.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387524533
• ISBN 13: 9780387524535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 137
• Editor: Dress Andreas, Von Haeseler A.