In many research domains different pieces of information are collected regarding the same set of objects. Each piece of information constitutes a data block, and all these (coupled) blocks have the object mode in common. When analyzing such data, an important aim is to obtain an overall picture...

Additive clustering provides a conceptually simple similarity model which is, nevertheless, capable of accommodating arbitrary similarity structures. The discrete nature of the clusters, coupled with the general flexibility of the model, however, means that the derivation of additive clustering...