Title
Semantics of Multimodal Network Models
Abstract
A multimodal network (MMN) is a novel graph-theoretic formalism designed to capture the structure of biological networks and to represent relationships derived from multiple biological databases. MMNs generalize the standard notions of graphs and hypergraphs, which are the bases of current diagrammatic representations of biological phenomena, and incorporate the concept of mode. Each vertex of an MMN is a biological entity, a biot, while each modal hyperedge is a typed relationship, where the type is given by the mode of the hyperedge. The semantics of each modal hyperedge e is given through denotational semantics, where a valuation function f_{e} defines the relationship among the values of the vertices incident on e. The meaning of an MMN is denoted in terms of the semantics of a hyperedge sequence. A companion paper defines MMNs and concentrates on the structural aspects of MMNs. This paper develops MMN denotational semantics when used as a representation of the semantics of biological networks and discusses applications of MMNs in managing complex biological data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TCBB.2007.70242
IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform.
Keywords
Field
DocType
biological networks,cost accounting,biot,computational modeling,denotational semantics,biological model,modeling,biological network,simulation,graph labeling,mathematical model,predictive models,network model,biological database,databases,mode,graph,computer networks,biological data,graph theory
Biological data,Diagrammatic reasoning,Computer science,Hypergraph,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Graph theory,Biological network,Denotational semantics,Constraint graph,Bioinformatics,Semantics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
2
1545-5963
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.92
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lenwood S. Heath1926106.01
Allan A. Sioson2392.93