Towards a General Theory of Classifications

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Parrochia, Daniel (Συγγραφέας), Neuville, Pierre (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2013.
• Σειρά: Studies in Universal Logic
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Logic.; Information storage and retrieval.; Algebra.; Ordered algebraic structures.; Game theory.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.  .