Graphics! I feel that we have to be able to look at the graphics for this
discussion to be effective.
As a starter, I've put images of the figures on the Learning-org web page
which carries John's msg. Point your web browser to John's msg LO4921 or
to this URL to see John's msg with the figures.
<http://world.std.com/~lo/96.01/0393.html>
On Tue, 16 Jan 1996 JOHNWFIELD@aol.com wrote:
> Publication #1. John N. Warfield, "Some Principles of Knowledge
> Organization", (1979), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
> 9(6), 317-325.
>
> This publication portrays the basic structural forms that correspond to
> directed graphs, and shows in Figure 9, how these structures are
> interrelated. The most elementary structural type shown there is the
> "isolated element". The most general structural type shown there is the
> "multilevel map", which I have later named the "hybrid structure", because
> it incorporates both hierarchical substructures and cyclic substructures.
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