Volume 2, April 1999

OSDA98, Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, 28 - 30 September 1998

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  Stéphane Bonnevay, Michel Lamure, Christine Largeron-Leténo, Nicolas Nicoloyannis: A pretopological approach for structuring data in non-metric spaces. 1-9
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  Silke Brandt, Dietrich Albert, Cord Hockemeyer: Surmise relations between tests: Preliminary results of the mathematical modeling. 10-24
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  Nathalie Caspard, Bernard Monjardet: The lattices of Moore families and closure operators on a finite set: A survey. 25-50
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  David M. Dilts, Joseph N. Khamalah: A comparison of ordinal analysis techniques in medical resource usage research. 51-68
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  Andreas W. M. Dress, Katharina T. Huber, Vincent Moulton: Some new perspectives regarding sparse continuous models for discrete data structures. 69-75
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  Susanne Prediger: Formal concept analysis for general objects. 76-93
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  Fred S. Roberts: On balanced signed graphs and consistent marked graphs. 94-105
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  Scott R. Sykes: Convex and extendable partitions of a lattice. 106-121
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  Alexis Tsoukiàs, Philippe Vincke: A generalization of interval orders. 122-133
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  Rian A. W. van Blokland-Vogelesang: Ordinal and ordered metric unfolding models. 134-146
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  Edwin Diday: Galois lattices and some symbolic data analysis algorithms. 147-148
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  Jean-Paul Doignon: Dimensions of chains of relations. 149
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  Victor Chepoi, Bernard Fichet: Three-way Metrics: Axiomatization and Properties. 150
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  Donald G. Saari: From Arrow's Theorem to Incentives and Price Dynamics. 151
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  Ann Mische, Philippa Pattison, Garry Robins: The Plurality of Social Relations: kappa-Partite Representations of Interdependent Social Forms. 152
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  William T. Trotter: Combinatorial Aspects of Interval Orders and Interval Graphs. 153
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  Rudolf Wille: Mathematical Support for Empirical Theory Building. 154-155
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  Jean-Pierre Barthélemy: Caterpiller Distances. 156
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  Patrice Bertrand, Melvin F. Janowitz: The k-weak Hierarchies: An Extension of the Weak Hierarchical Clustering Structure. 157
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  David Bryant, David Sankoff: Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Genome Order Data. 158
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  Sophie David, Daniéle Dubois, Thomas Pfuhl: Automatic Emergence of Categories from Linguistic Descriptions Using FXS. 159-169
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  Cornelia E. Dowling, Cord Hockemeyer: Integrating Knowledge Spaces Obtained by Querying Different Experts. 170
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  Samuel Fiorini: Polyhedral aspects of partial orders and comparability graphs. 171
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  Herman P. Friedman, John H. Siegel: A Geometric Model for Physiologic State Classification and Severity Classification of Critically Ill Patients. 172
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  Mireille Gettler-Summa: Lines of Life for MGS Symbolic Descriptions. 173-175
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  François-Joseph Lapointe: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Ordinal and Symbolic Whisky Analysis. 176
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  Bruno Leclerc: Medians in LLD Meet Semilattices and the Case of Orders. 177
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  Fuad Aleskerov, Yusufcan Masatlioglu: Binary Relations and Choice Functions Representable via Utility Functions and Supermodular or Multiplicative Error Functions. 178
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  Fred R. McMorris, Robert C. Powers: The median function on distributive semilattices. 179
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  Klaus Nehring, Clemens Puppe: A Theory of Diversity. 180-181
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  Marc Pirlot, Denis Bouyssou: On Aggregation Models Leading to Valued Preference Relations. 182
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  Robert C. Powers: Medians and Majorities in Semimodular Posets. 183
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  William Shannon: An Introduction to Health Services Research. 184
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  Reinhold Suck: The Basis of a Knowledge Space and a Generalized Interval Order. 185
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  Alexis Tsoukiàs, Vincent Mousseau: Ordinal Measurement in Decision Aid. 186-187
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  Hiroyuki Yaguchi, Manabu Ichino: The New Feature Selection Method Based on the Interclass Distinguishibility and the Generality of Class Description. 188
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  Edwin Diday: Symbolic Data Analysis: A Mathematical Framework and Tool for Data Mining. 189-198
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  Rudolf Wille: Formal Concept Analysis: Tutorial on formal concept analysis. 199-200
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  Jean-Claude Falmagne: ALEKS: An application of knowledge space theory: Tutorial on knowledge spaces. 203