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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Towards a General Theory of Classifications
  name:
    name part: Parrochia, Daniel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Neuville, Pierre.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 304 p. 72 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is an essay on the epistemology of classifications. Its main purpose is not to provide an exposition of an actual mathematical theory of classifications, that is, a general theory which would be available to any kind of them: hierarchical or non-hierarchical, ordinary or fuzzy, overlapping or non-overlapping, finite or infinite, and so on, establishing a basis for all possible divisions of the real world. For the moment, such a theory remains nothing but a dream. Instead, the authors essentially put forward a number of key questions. Their aim is rather to reveal the “state of art” of this dynamic field and the philosophy one may eventually adopt to go further. To this end they present some advances made in the course of the last century, discuss a few tricky problems that remain to be solved, and show the avenues open to those who no longer wish to stay on the wrong track. Researchers and professionals interested in the epistemology and philosophy of science, library science, logic and set theory, order theory or cluster analysis will find this book a comprehensive, original and progressive introduction to the main questions in this field.
  table of contents: Foreword -- 1 Philosophical problems -- 2 Information data structures -- 3 Empirical Clustering and classic hierarchies -- 4 Algebra of trees -- 5 Generalized Classifications -- 6 Topology of generalized classifications -- 7 Meta-classification -- 8 For an axiomatic theory of classifications -- 9 Alternative theories and higher infinite -- 10 Postscript -- Bibliography. .
  note: by Daniel Parrochia, Pierre Neuville.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Information storage and retrieval
  subject:
    topic: Algebra
  subject:
    topic: Ordered algebraic structures
  subject:
    topic: Game theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical logic
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Logic and Foundations
  subject:
    topic: Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Information Storage and Retrieval
  classification: QA8.9-10.3
  classification: 511.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in Universal Logic
  identifier: 9783034806091
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0609-1
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    record change date: 20151103125159.0
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