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Re: [ontolog-forum] N-ary relationships and hypergraphs

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From: "AzamatAbdoullaev" <abdoul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:15:21 +0200
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On Monday, November 14, 2011 3:32 PM, Phil Murray wrote:
"Are there *any other *non-binary models for representing complex objects 
[that is, objects with n-ary substructure] and relationships among those 
complex objects???"    (01)

See Chapter 6: "What Organizes the World: N-Relational Entities".
http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/reality-universal-ontology-knowledge-systems/28312    (02)

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From: "Phil Murray" <pcmurray2000@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:32 PM
Subject: [ontolog-forum] N-ary relationships and hypergraphs    (03)


> Although I am not an expert in knowledge representation, the current
> discussion of n-ary relations in representation of knowledge is very
> important to my interests.  So I have several questions:
>
>  *
>    Are /hypergraphs /sufficiently well understood and accepted as a
>    modeling tool for similar [n-ary] requirements?
>  *
>    Are there any tools that support creation and visualization of
>    hypergraphs [from data]?
>  *
>    Gian Piero Zarri's /Representation and management of narrative
>    information: Theoretical principles and implementation/ describes
>    his Narrative Knowledge Representation Language (NKRL), an n-ary
>    approach to representation of what I would call rhetorically
>    coheren/t ///extended communications/./ (His
>    well-researched discussion of "the n-ary problem" on pages 14-33 is
>    particularly informative.) Are there *any other *non-binary models
>    for representing complex objects [that is, objects with n-ary
>    substructure] and relationships among those complex objects???
>  *
>    Are there any SW tools that *directly *support pointing to
>    (reifying) an arbitrary set of nodes and/or edges?
>  *
>    And if this is not the right space to ask this and
>    similar questions, where else would you suggest I look for answers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil Murray
>
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