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AO
2006
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A note on the transitivity of parthood
Abstract. That parthood is a transitive relation is among the most basic principles of classical mereology. Alas, it is also very controversial. In a recent paper, Ingvar Johansson...
Achille C. Varzi
CAISE
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Problem of Transitivity of Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modeling Revisited
Abstract. Parthood is a relation of fundamental importance in a number of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics and conceptual modeling. However, one classical probl...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
AIME
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Replacing SEP-Triplets in SNOMED CT Using Tractable Description Logic Operators
Reification of parthood relations according to the SEP-triplet encoding pattern has been employed in the clinical terminology SNOMED CT to simulate transitivity of the part-of rel...
Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn, Franz Baader, Stefan S...
ASYNC
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Notes On Pulse Signaling
This paper reports results of a study on pulse signaling. In pulse signaling, components communicate by means of pulses instead of voltage transitions. The functionality of the co...
Jo C. Ebergen, Steve Furber, Arash Saifhashemi
RML
2006
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A Note on Transitive Sets without the Foundation Axiom
We construct a model of set theory without the foundation axiom in which there exists a transitive set whose intersection is not transitive.
Marcin Kysiak