This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book offers something for everyone working with market segmentation: practical guidance for users of market segmentation solutions; organisational guidance on implementation issues; guidance for market researchers in...

We introduce a generic simulation framework suitable for agent-based simulations featuring the support of heterogeneous agents, hierarchical scheduling, and flexible specification of design parameters. One key aspect of this framework is the design specification: we use a format based on the...

The fitting of finite mixture models is an ill-defined estimation problem, as completely different parameterizations can induce similar mixture distributions. This leads to multiple modes in the likelihood, which is a problem for frequentist maximum likelihood estimation, and complicates...

Clustering of features generated of musical sound recordings proved to be beneficial for further classification tasks such as instrument recognition (Ligges and Krey in Comput Stat 26(2):279–291, <CitationRef CitationID="CR11">2011</CitationRef>). We propose to use order constrained solutions in K-means clustering to stabilize the...</citationref>