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Dewey Class	511.3
Title	Towards a General Theory of Classifications ([Ebook]) / by Daniel Parrochia, Pierre Neuville.
Author	Parrochia, Daniel
Added Personal Name	Neuville, Pierre
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	Basel : Birkhäuser
Publication	, 2013.
Physical Details	XXIII, 304 p. 72 illus., 1 illus. in color. : online resource.
Series	Studies in Universal Logic
ISBN	9783034806091
Summary Note	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 or non-overlapping, finite or infinite, and so on, establishing a basis for all possible divisions of the real world. For the moment, such a theory remains nothing but a dream. Instead, the authors essentially put forward a number of key questions. Their aim is rather to reveal the âstate of artâ of this dynamic field and the philosophy one may eventually adopt to go further. To this end they present some advances made in the course of the last century, discuss a few tricky problems that remain to be solved, and show the avenues open to those who no longer wish to stay on the wrong track. Researchers and professionals interested in the epistemology and philosophy of science, library science, logic and set theory, order theory or cluster analysis will find this book a comprehensive, original and progressive introduction to the main questions in this field.:
Contents note	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. .
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users).
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0609-1
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Algebra . Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences . Information Storage and Retrieval . Information storage and retrieval systems . Logic . Logic, Symbolic and mathematical . Mathematical Logic and Foundations . Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures . Authors: author . Neuville, Pierre . Parrochia, Daniel . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Studies in Universal Logic . Classification: 511.3 . 511.3 (DDC 23) .

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