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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dress, Andreas
• Haeseler, Arndt

Titel

Trees and Hierarchical Structures : Proceedings of a Conference held at Bielefeld, FRG, Oct. 5–9th, 1987 [Elektronische Ressource]

Ist Teil von

• Lecture Notes in Biomathematics : 84

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The "raison d'etre" of hierarchical dustering theory stems from one basic phenomenon: This is the notorious non-transitivity of similarity relations. In spite of the fact that very often two objects may be quite similar to a third without being that similar to each other, one still wants to dassify objects according to their similarity. This should be achieved by grouping them into a hierarchy of non-overlapping dusters such that any two objects in ~ne duster appear to be more related to each other than they are to objects outside this duster. In everyday life, as well as in essentially every field of scientific investigation, there is an urge to reduce complexity by recognizing and establishing reasonable dassification schemes. Unfortunately, this is counterbalanced by the experience of seemingly unavoidable deadlocks caused by the existence of sequences of objects, each comparatively similar to the next, but the last rather different from the first