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There are some domains which currently do not fit easily into the standard definitions and formalisms of Conceptual Structures, due to the dynamic nature of the knowledge being represented. Some simple examples include a variable number of students in a class, or several exits from a room. In these cases, the number of concepts to be “attached” to the relation is not known beforehand. The use of variable arity relations will allow representation of knowledge where a relation may not point to the same number of concepts in every situation.
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Corbett, D. (1999). A Case for Variable-Arity Relations: Definitions and Domains. In: Tepfenhart, W.M., Cyre, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices. ICCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48659-3_33
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