Cluster analysis, models for decision making, bioinformatics, text categorization and summarization.
Main publications:
Boris Mirkin, Clustering for data mining: A data recovery approach, Computer Science and Data Analysis Series, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 23-25 Blades Court, London SW15, UK, 2005
Boris Mirkin, Mathematical Classification and Clustering, Nonconvex optimization and its applications, Kluwer Academic Press (currently Springer), 1996
B. G. Mirkin, Problema gruppovogo vybora, Nauka: Gl. Redaktsiya fiz-mat diteratury, Moskva, 1974
B. N. Mirkin, S. N. Rodin, Grafy i geny, Nauka: Glavnaya redaktsiya f.-m. literatury, Moskva, 1977