Preface.- I The Main Ingredients.- 1 Clustering.- 2 Copula Function and C-volume.- 3 Combinatorics and Random Matrices: A Brief Review.- II Mixing the Ingredients: A Recipe for a New Aggregation Algorithm.- 4 Counting a Random Event: Traditional Approach and New Perspectives.- 5 A New Copula-based Approach for Counting: The Distorted and the Limiting Case.- 6 Real Data Empirical Applications.