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On Fractals in Information Systems: The First Step

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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2001)

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We introduce the notion of a fractal in an information system and we define a dimension function of a fractal in an information system parallel to the Minkowski dimension in Euclidean spaces. We prove basic properties of this new dimension.

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  1. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Koszykowa 86, 02-008, Warsaw, Poland

    Lech Polkowski

  2. Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology, Pl. Politechniki 1, 00-650, Warsaw, Poland

    Lech Polkowski

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  1. Graduate School of Business Science, The University of Tsukuba, Tokyo

    Takao Terano  & Yukio Ohsawa  & 

  2. School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

    Toyoaki Nishida

  3. Dept.of Computer Science, National Defense Academy, Japan

    Akira Namatame

  4. School of Medicines, Shimane Medical University, Japan

    Syusaku Tsumoto

  5. The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka

    Takashi Washio

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Polkowski, L. (2001). On Fractals in Information Systems: The First Step. In: Terano, T., Ohsawa, Y., Nishida, T., Namatame, A., Tsumoto, S., Washio, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45548-5_31

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