Overview

The 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 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.

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Author:   Andreas Dress ,  Arndt Von Haeseler
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   1990 ed.
Volume:   84
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9783540524533

ISBN 10:   3540524533
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   04 April 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Reconstruction of Phylogenies by Distance Data: Mathematical Framework and Statistical Analysis.- 3. Additive-Tree Representations.- 4. Finding the Minimal Change in a Given Tree.- 5. Search, Parallelism, Comparison, and Evaluation: Algorithms for Evolutionary Trees.- 6. The Phylogeny of Prochloron: Is there Numerical Evidence from SAB Values? A Response to van Valen.- 7. Evolution of the Collagen Fibril by Duplication and Diversification of a Small Primordial Exon Unit.- 8. The Poincare Paradox and The Cluster Problem.- 9. An incremental Error Correcting Evaluation Algorithm for Recursion Networks without Circuits.

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