Innovative Data Integration and Conceptual Space Modeling for COVID, Cancer, and Cardiac Care

Chapter 1: Introduction

Abstract

In the first chapter we present the scaffolding of the book, introducing novel approaches to data modeling, such as type theory, conceptual spaces, or graph database architectures. We posit that any database, data set, or information space should be engineered with the expectation that multiple (not fully isomorphic) software components will be interacting with that data; and that parts therein will be passed and shared between such components, implying that data should be structured to facilitate cross-component communication. We propose that most of the theoretical constructions summarized here vis-à-vis hypergraph or code models may be concretely instantiated through virtual machines, via which query evaluation ...