Towards a general theory of classifications
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...
| Main Author: | Parrochia, Daniel, 1951- |
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| Other Authors: | Neuville, Pierre., SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel ; New York :
Birkhäuser,
©2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Studies in universal logic.
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Table of Contents:
- Philosophical problems
- Information data structures
- Empirical clustering and classic hierarchies
- Algebra of trees
- Generalized classifications
- Topology of generalized classifications
- Metaclassification
- For an axiomatic theory of classifications
- Alternative theories and higher infinite
- Postscript.