Transporting the Partitioning Method to the Intensional Aspects of Concepts

Locuratolo E., Palomäki J.

Semantic models  Object models  Partitioning  Concept  Intensional  Extensional 

The Partitioning Method, a formal mapping between a directed acyclic graph of classes supported by semantic data models and classes supported by object systems, has been applied to the extensional aspects of concepts. This paper is concerned with the applicability of the method to the intensional aspects of concepts. Concepts are introduced through information contents and elementary cases of hierarchies are examined in order to go from the concept level to the set-theoretical level.

Source: ISTI Technical reports, 2007