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

To: <doug@xxxxxxxxxx>, "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "AzamatAbdoullaev" <abdoul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:55:19 +0200
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "doug foxvog" <doug@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] N-ary relationships and hypergraphs    (01)


> Azamat,
>
> The first two pages of the reference chapter do not answer the question.
> You are charging $30 (US) for access to the rest of the chapter.    (02)

The price is charged by the publishing house. Indeed, it's expansive, but I 
have nothing to do with them, and, as to the contract, banned to distrubute 
the book as a whole or its part.    (03)

 I
> suggest that either you share your answer with this forum with text in
> an email or if you don't have the time to distill an answer from the
> 20-page chapter, provide the PDF of the chapter for free to this forum.
>
> To answer Phil, another model for representing objects with n-ary
> substructure and relationships among such objects is reifying the
> objects in a language not restricted to binary relations.  Semantic
> languages that do this include the LISP-structured KIF and CycL.
>
> Standard object-oriented programming languages (Java, C++, ...) also
> provide the capability.
>
> -- doug foxvog
>
> On Wed, November 16, 2011 13:15, AzamatAbdoullaev said:
>> 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???"
>>
>> See Chapter 6: "What Organizes the World: N-Relational Entities".
>> 
>http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/reality-universal-ontology-knowledge-systems/28312
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Phil Murray" <pcmurray2000@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:32 PM
>> Subject: [ontolog-forum] N-ary relationships and hypergraphs
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>> The Semantic Advantage
>>> Turning Information into Assets
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>>> 401-247-7899
>>>
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>>>
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