Re: NEWS: A "Compound Terms Composition Algebra" just appeared

Dear Yannis,
I went to your web site, and wasn't able to download any of your 
papers ("file not found" error).  It looks like interesting material.
Thanks,
Bob Parks

>Hi all,
>
>  I am very glad  that I found this discussion group as faceted
>classification is one of my favorite research interests.
>The last two years, I have tried to formalize and extend the basic ideas
>around  faceted taxonomies.
>The outcome of this effort is:
>
>(a) a quite clear and understandable formal framework that describes:
>taxonomies, faceted taxonomies, compound terms and compound taxonomies,
>and
>
>(b) an algebra (I call it, Compound Terms Composition Algebra) that
>allows specifying the valid (meaningfull) compound terms over  a faceted
>taxonomy in a systematic and flexible manner.  This algebra is
>accompanied by an efficient (polynomial time) inference mechanism and a
>method for deriving navigational graphs dynamically.
>
>I and my colleagues, believe that this  algebra can be used in order to
>construct very very large taxonomies with low effort.  You can read more
>in the following article::
>
>Yannis Tzitzikas, Anastasia Analyti, Nicolas Spyratos and Panos
>Constantopoulos,
>?An Algebra  for Specifying Compound Terms for  Faceted Taxonomies?,
>Proceedings of the 13th European-Japanese Conference on Information
>Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Kitakyushu, Japan,  June 2003
>
>The full paper is available through my web page:
>http://www.csi.forth.gr/~tzitzik/publications.htm
>I hope you find it interesting, and I am waiting for your comments.
>
>Ciao,
>
>Yannis
>
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