As pointed out by Woodall and Montgomery (1999), there are a number of disputes in the area of statistical quality control (SQC). There are differences of opinion in all areas of statistical science, but disagreements tend to be more common and more intense in the quality area. This could be due in part to the diversity of those working in the quality field, including quality gurus and their fo...

The data-rich environments of industrial applications lead to large amounts of correlated quality characteristics that are monitored using Multivariate Statistical Process Control (MSPC) tools. These variables usually represent heterogeneous quantities that originate from one or multiple sensors and are acquired with different sampling parameters. In this framework, any assumptions relative to ...

One of the main techniques used in data mining is data clustering, which has many applications in computer science, biology, and social sciences. Constrained clustering is a type of clustering in which side information provided by the user is incorporated into current clustering algorithms. One of the well researched constrained clustering algorithms is called microaggregation. In a microaggreg...