Year
2009
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering - Faculty of Informatics
Recommended Citation
Rayner, Eric, Knowledge libraries and information space, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering - Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong, 2009. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3027
Abstract
This research describes and develops Knowledge Libraries, idealised systems for organising and presenting information. By providing a mathematical basis, the definition of information space establishes a formal foundation for Knowledge Libraries. The definition of information space builds on the new definitions of L-collections, which generalise sets by allowing a real valued grade to be associated with each element, and set space, which generalises metric space to better model the relationships between information units.
The multiple search tree method improves existing metric space range query algorithms. These algorithms are also generalised to work over set space. The sequential-hybrid algorithm enables efficient range queries over multi-dimensional spaces.
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