Trees and Hierarchical Structures: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Bielefeld, Frg, Oct. 5-9th, 1987

The "raison d'etre" of hierarchical dustering theory stems from one basic phe- nomenon: 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540524533
• ISBN13: 9783540524533
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 140 Pages
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