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Trees and Hierarchical Structures

Proceedings of a Conference held at Bielefeld, FRG, Oct. 5–9th, 1987

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Andreas Dress

    1. Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. Arndt Haeseler

    1. Department of Mathematics DRB 306, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 84)

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages ii-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Andreas W. M. Dress, Arndt von Haeseler
    Pages 1-7

  3. Reconstruction of Phylogenies by Distance Data: Mathematical Framework and Statistical Analysis

    • Paul O. Degens, Berthold Lausen, Werner Vach
    Pages 9-42

  4. Additive-Tree Representations

    • Hervé Abdi
    Pages 43-59

  5. Finding the Minimal Change in a Given Tree

    • Patrick L. Williams, Walter M. Fitch
    Pages 60-74

  6. Search, Parallelism, Comparison, and Evaluation: Algorithms for Evolutionary Trees

    • David Penny, Pauline Penny
    Pages 75-91

  7. The Phylogeny of Prochloron: Is There Numerical Evidence from S AB Values? A Response to Van Valen

    • Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Arndt von Haeseler
    Pages 92-99

  8. Evolution of the Collagen Fibril by Duplication and Diversification of a Small Primordial Exon Unit

    • Hans Hofmann, Klaus Kühn
    Pages 100-116

  9. The Poincare Paradox and the Cluster Problem

    • Ulrich Höhle
    Pages 117-124

  10. An Incremental Error Correcting Evaluation Algorithm For Recursion Networks without Circuits

    • Ingo Althöfer
    Pages 125-137

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 139-141
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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 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 das­ sification 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.

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  • Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Andreas Dress

  • Department of Mathematics DRB 306, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Arndt Haeseler

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