Towards a General Theory of Classifications

• Main Authors: Parrochia, Daniel (Author), Neuville, Pierre (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Universal Logic
• Subjects: 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...