… The formal model we present here relies on the mathematical concept of hypergraph
introduced by Berge in the Tihany colloquium in 1966 [7] (see also [6,8,10,11,18,24]). Properties of …

… Topics, Associations and Occurrences are also the key constructs in the topic map model
(hence the title of this paper). But before discussing that model in more detail, let us look briefly …

… This book is about topic maps, particularly topic maps implemented in the XTM Version
1.0 specification format, as conceived by the XTM Authoring Group, which was started by an …

… Topic maps superimpose an external layer that describes the nature … topic maps. The
purpose of the Extensible Markup Language topic maps (XTM) initiative is to apply the topic maps …

… We think that such a constraint is too strong to model real maps. On the other hand, it is
possible to accept features while requiring disjoint covering if isolated lines (or chains) and …

… the semantics of the ME-MAP model. Such generalization as discussed before would … formal
semantics of the ME-MAP model. We first start with the abstract syntax of the ME-MAP model …

… According to ISO definition, a topic is a symbol used within a topic map to represent one (…
This application uses Educational Concept Maps, based on Topic Maps standards, for the …

… Section 4 presents an accurate formal model and sets the stage for our discussion of what is
… to compare our formal model of associations specified in Fig. 3 with the UML model (Fig. 1). …

… In particular, the formal model in this work serves as a rigorous basis for further development
of a formal framework to design and evaluate context-aware services. We made various …

… model doesn’t resolve a solution to the problem, then sometimes “just doing it” is the right
approach – which means mapping the problem the self-model… , it may map the problem into the …