Developing a Formal Model for Mind Maps

Siochos, Vasilis and Papatheodorou, Christos Developing a Formal Model for Mind Maps., 2011 . In First Workshop on Digital Information Management, Corfu (Greece), 30-31 March 2011. [Conference paper]

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English abstract

Mind map is a graphical technique, which is used to represent words, concepts, tasks or other connected items or arranged around central topic or idea. Mind maps are widely used, therefore exist plenty of software programs to create or edit them, while there is none format for the model representation, neither a standard format. This paper presents and effort to propose a formal mind map model aiming to describe the structure, content, semantics and social connections. The structure describes the basic mind map graph consisted of a node set, an edge set, a cloud set and a graphical connections set. The content includes the set of the texts and objects linked to the nodes. The social connections are the mind maps of other users, which form the neighborhood of the mind map owner in a social networking system. Finally, the mind map semantics is any true logic connection between mind map textual parts and a concept. Each of these elements of the model is formally described building the suggested mind map model. Its establishment will support the application of algorithms and methods towards their information extraction.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: mind map, knowledge organization, Web 2.0
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
Depositing user: Giannis Tsakonas
Date deposited: 27 Jun 2011
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:19
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/15842

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