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Most modern formalisms used in Databases and Artificial Intelligence for describing an application domain are based on the notions of class (or concept) and relationship among classes. One interesting feature of such formalisms is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 G. DeGiacomo , M. Lenzerini

Multi-model databases are designed to store, manage, and query data in various models, such as relational, hierarchical, and graph data, simultaneously. In this paper, we provide a theoretical basis for querying categorical databases. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiaheng Lu

We introduce a theory for encoding and manipulating algebraic data on categories via $\textit{concentration structures}$, which are equivalence relations on morphisms that satisfy certain axioms. For any category with a concentration…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yangxiao Luo , Shunyu Wan

A certain amount of category theory is developed in an arbitrary finitely complete category with a factorization system on it, playing the role of the comprehensive factorization system on Cat. Those aspects related to the concepts of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Claudio Pisani

Category theory offers a mathematical foundation for knowledge representation and database systems. Popular existing approaches model a database instance as a functor into the category of sets and functions, or as a 2-functor into the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Michael Lambert , Evan Patterson

In this paper we formalize some foundation concepts and theorems of group theory in a variant of type theory called the Calculus of Constructions with Definitions. In this theory we introduce definition of a group, which is both general and…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Farida Kachapova

Abstract clones serve as an algebraic presentation of the syntax of a simple type theory. From the perspective of universal algebra, they define algebraic theories like those of groups, monoids and rings. This link allows one to study the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nayan Rajesh

The recent trend in mathematics is towards a framework of abstract mathematical objects, rather than the more concrete approach of explicitly defining elements which objects were thought to consist of. A natural question to raise is whether…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Benjamin Horowitz

Due to the lack of structured knowledge applied in learning distributed representation of categories, existing work cannot incorporate category hierarchies into entity information.~We propose a framework that embeds entities and categories…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Yuezhang Li , Ronghuo Zheng , Tian Tian , Zhiting Hu , Rahul Iyer , Katia Sycara

In many scenarios, human decisions are explained based on some high-level concepts. In this work, we take a step in the interpretability of neural networks by examining their internal representation or neuron's activations against concepts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mohammad Nokhbeh Zaeem , Majid Komeili

We develop semantics and syntax for bicategorical type theory. Bicategorical type theory features contexts, types, terms, and directed reductions between terms. This type theory is naturally interpreted in a class of structured…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North , Niels van der Weide

Conceptual Scaling is a useful standard tool in Formal Concept Analysis and beyond. Its mathematical theory, as elaborated in the last chapter of the FCA monograph, still has room for improvement. As it stands, even some of the basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Bernhard Ganter , Tom Hanika , Johannes Hirth

We consider (finitary, propositional) logics through the original use of Category Theory: the study of the "sociology of mathematical objects", aligning us with a recent, and growing, trend of study logics through its relations with other…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Caio de Andrade Mendes , Hugo Luiz Mariano

We explain the notion of colimit in category theory as a potential tool for describing structures and their communication, and the notion of higher dimensional algebra as a potential yoga for dealing with processes and processes of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-10 R. Brown , T. Porter

This extended abstract gives a brief outline of the connections between the descriptions and variable concepts. Thus, the notion of a concept is extended to include both the syntax and semantics features. The evaluation map in use is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viacheslav Wolfengagen

There is a growing need for abstractions in logic specification languages such as FO(.) and ASP. One technique to achieve these abstractions are templates (sometimes called macros). While the semantics of templates are virtually always…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ingmar Dasseville , Matthias van der Hallen , Gerda Janssens , Marc Denecker

Algebraic theories with dependency between sorts form the structural core of Martin-L\"of type theory and similar systems. Their denotational semantics are typically studied using categorical techniques; many different categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Paige Randall North

Complexity theory provides a wealth of complexity classes for analyzing the complexity of decision and counting problems. Despite the practical relevance of enumeration problems, the tools provided by complexity theory for this important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Nadia Creignou , Markus Kröll , Reinhard Pichler , Sebastian Skritek , Heribert Vollmer

We introduce a hierarchy of fast-growing complexity classes and show its suitability for completeness statements of many non elementary problems. This hierarchy allows the classification of many decision problems with a non-elementary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Sylvain Schmitz

In context of efforts of composing category-theoretic and logical methods in the area of knowledge representation we propose the notion of conceptory. We consider intersection/union and other constructions in conceptories as expressive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Osman Bineev