[FRIAM] Graph/Network discursion.

[Steven A Smith]

OK, we can hold off on beating this horse until a more specific and 
relevant example arrives on the scene, then we can lead him to water and 
hold him under whether he drinks or not.!


On 6/9/17 1:56 PM, gepr ⛧ wrote:
> 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...