Given the huge amount of information in the internet and in practically every domain of knowledge that we are facing today, knowledge discovery calls for automation. The book deals with methods from classification and data analysis that respond effectively to this rapidly growing challenge. The interested reader will find new methodological insights as well as applications in economics, management science, finance, and marketing, and in pattern recognition, biology, health, and archaeology.

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Classification.- Pattern Recognition and Automation.- Data Mining, Information Processing, and Automation.- New Media, Web Mining, and Automation.- Applications in Management Science, Finance, and Marketing.- Applications in Medicine, Biology, Archaeology, and Others.- Author Index.- Subject Index.