One Step up the Abstraction Ladder: Combining Algebras - From Functional Pieces to a Whole (1999)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Frank99onestep,
author = {Andrew U. Frank},
title = {One Step up the Abstraction Ladder: Combining Algebras - From Functional Pieces to a Whole},
booktitle = {},
year = {1999},
pages = {95--107},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
ion Ladder: Combining Algebras - From Functional Pieces to a Whole Andrew U. Frank Department of Geoinformation Technical University Vienna Gusshausstr. 27-29, A-1040 Vienna, Austria frank@geoinfo,tuwien.ac.at Abstract. A fundamental scientific question today is how to construct complex systems from simple parts. Science today seems mostly to analyze limited pieces of the puzzle; the combination of these pieces to form a whole is left for later or others. The lack of efficient methods to deal with the combination problem is likely the main reason. How to combine individual results is a dominant question in cognitive science or geography, where phenomena are studied from individuals and at different scales, but the results cannot be brought together. This paper proposes to use parameterized algebras much the same way that we use functional abstraction (procedures in programming languages) to create abstract building blocks which can be combined later. Algebras group oper...
