An introduction to symbolic data analysis and the SODAS software

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 583-601

  Diday, Edwin ^a   Esposito, Floriana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

MODELING CONCEPTS; RELATIONAL DATA; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SYMBOLIC DATA; SYMBOLIC DATA ANALYSIS; SYMBOLIC DESCRIPTION; SYMBOLIC OBJECTS; TOOLS AND METHODS;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 37949034947     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2003-7606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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