from the usage of new media and the internet, applications in, e.g., (in alphabetical order) archeolo­ gy, bioinformatics, economics, environment, and health have been reported. As always, an unambiguous assignment of results to single topics is some­ times difficult, thus, from more than 130 presentations offered within the scientific program 65 papers are grouped into the following chapters and subchapters: ¿ Plenary and Semi Plenary Presentations - Classification and Information - Finance and Risk ¿ Classification and Related Aspects of Data Analysis and Learning - Classification, Data Analysis, and Statistics - Conceptual Analysis and Learning ¿ Usage of New Media and the Internet - Information Systems, Multimedia, and WWW - Navigation and Classification on the Internet and Virtual Univ- sities ¿ Applications in Economics