[FRIAM] Graph/Network discursion.

[gepr ⛧]

I'm not entirely sure to be honest. But I know they must contain cycles. So DAGs are inadequate, hence my revulsion at the word "level".

On June 9, 2017 12:37:39 PM PDT, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>Glen -
>
>At the risk of boring the rest of the crowd silly, I'd be interested in
>
>hearing more about the kinds of graphs you would like to talk about.  
>I 
>agree that Partially Ordered Sets are a (relatively) special case.
>
>My interest is in the structure/function duality, more in topological 
>than geometric structure.  I've read D'Arcy Thompson (no relation
>Nick?) 
>but not studied him closely, and I defer for my intuition to
>Christopher 
>Alexander (A Pattern Language) for high-dimensional graph-relations in
>a 
>real-world (human-built environments) context I can relate to.
>
>Perhaps I'm more interested in Networks, though I'd like to ask the 
>naive question of how folks here distinguish the two... I tend to think
>
>of Networks as Graphs with flows along edges.   I think in terms of 
>multi-graphs (allowing multiple edges between nodes) or more precisely,
>
>edges with multiple strengths/lengths/flows or more precisely yet I 
>think,  with vector properties on edges...

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⛧glen⛧