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Rudolf Berghammer

Institut für Informatik
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Olshausenstr. 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
rub@informatik.uni-kiel.de

Contact Relations with Applications

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Relational Methods in Computer Science, RelMiCS 11

November 1--5, 2009, Doha, Qatar

Proceedings appeared as Lect. Notes in Comput. Sci. 5827 (306--321)

Gunther Schmidt


Fakultät für Informatik
Universität der Bundeswehr München
85577 Neubiberg, Germany
Gunther.Schmidt@UniBw.de

November 2009
Relations and graphs are widely used as modeling tools. Using relation algebra, we generalize Aumann's notion of a contact relation and that of a closure operation from powersets to general membership relations and their induced partial orders. We also investigate the relationship between contacts and closures in this general setting and use contacts to establish a one-to-one correspondence between the column space and the row space of a relation.