Re: The stupidest design I ever saw

> "Formal Concept Analysis in Information Science" article by Uta Priss
> http://upriss.org.uk/papers/arist.pdf

Both the XML example given earlier which modelled vehicle classification as a hierarchy and Formal Concept Analysis which also employs a classification hierarchy (see example in Fig 2) are flawed in that it can lead to situations where a thing classified by it immediate parent, isn't classified by the parent of the parent.

Take a look at all the links between various nodes in Fig 2 and determine if there is a consistent relationship between nodes taking into account direction of the link. Basically the most consistent relationship seems to be that a lower node is an instance/example of the upper node. You can ignore top and bottom nodes which represent Universal Concept and NULL respectively. So what is the relationship between mammal and cartoon? Is cartoon a mammal? Received on Sun Apr 09 2006 - 16:59:42 CDT