Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft f?r Klassifikation e.V., University of Kaiserslautern, March 3 - 5, 1993I: Information Processing, Classification-Based Approaches, Linguistic and Conceptual Analysis.- Learning and Case-Based Reasoning.- Induction and Case-Based Reasoning for Classification Tasks.- Symbolic Learning and Nearest-Neighbor Classification.- Nonstandard Concepts of Similarity in Case-Based Reasoning.- Learning from Cases for Classification Problem Solving.- Approaches Based on Linguistic Analysis.- Methods of Phoneticizing in Regard to Spelling Variants of Medical Phrases.- Disambiguating Lexical Meaning: Conceptual meta-modelling as a means of controlling semantic language analysis.- Information Retrieval Using Conceptual Representations of Phrases.- Information Processing and Design of Information Systems.- Communication in Distributed Heterogenous Systems.- Prerequisites and Development Perspectives for Information Processing in the Social Sciences.- Aspects of Coupling Logic Programming and Databases.- Processing Scientific Networks in Bibliographic Databases.- Object-Oriented Systems Analysis Applied to the Method Component of a Knowledge-Based System for Data Analysis.- Classification Based Query Evaluation in Knowledge Base Systems.- Uncertainity and Neural Networks.- Neural Networks: Architectures, Learning and Performance.- Reasoning with Uncertainty in Diagnostic Systems.- Conceptual Approaches.- Der klassische und der moderne Begriff des Begriffs. Gedanken zur Geschichte der Begriffsbildung in den exakten Wissenschaften.- Ideas of Algebraic Concept Analysis.- Conceptual Structures in Mathematical Logic and Their Formal Representation.- II: Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Classification and Data Analysis.- Clustering and Discrimination.- Three-Mode Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Three-Way Three-Mode Data.- The Testing of Data Structures with Graph-Theoretical Models.- Geometric Approach to Evaluating Probl3–