The Formal Framework for Collective Systems

Automated reasoning is becoming crucial for information systems. Building one uniform decision support system has become too complicated. The natural approach is to divide the task and combine the results from different subsystems into one uniform answer. It is the basic idea behind the system appro...

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Main Authors: Rafał Palak, Krystian Wojtkiewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Axioms
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/10/2/91
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Summary:Automated reasoning is becoming crucial for information systems. Building one uniform decision support system has become too complicated. The natural approach is to divide the task and combine the results from different subsystems into one uniform answer. It is the basic idea behind the system approach, where one solution is a composition of multiple subsystems. In this paper, the main emphasis is on establishing the theoretical framework that combines various reasoning methods into a collective system. The system’s formal abstraction uses graph theory and provides a discussion on possible aggregation function definitions. The proposed framework is a tool for building and testing specific approaches rather than the solution itself.
ISSN:2075-1680