List of questions for position papers (to be completed)

• Which structures do you think adequate to classify concepts (classes) ? 
  lattices ? Any partial order ? Only Trees ?

• Is the controversy single vs multiple inheritance still to be discussed ? 
  Are there new (or old;-) arguments ?

• How to integrate hierarchies coming from different sources ? 
  Could we think of integrating several "partial" hierarchies into a single global one ? 
  Can it be done in an automatic manner ?

• Are the current metrics able to measure the quality of hierarchies ? 
  Do we know how to define the quality of a hierarchy ?

 

 

• Discuss limits and arguments in favor of automatic hierarchy design methods ?

• Are issues concerning the hierarchy management in object-oriented approaches  specific ? 
  Or all problems are in fact known classification problems, already considered in other approaches 
  (philosophy, data analysis, domain modeling activity, etc.) ?