Towards K-Set Frameworks in Education

Abstract

The paper addresses k-set frameworks as a basic for education (teaching and students projects). The material consists of the following: (i) scheme of designing a structural description for a new domain (as a new .world.), (ii) k-set problems (one-set problems as decision making/ordering, two-set problems as assignment/allocation, etc.), (iii) problems of hierarchy design and restructuring/reconfiguration (hierarchical clustering, spanning trees, reconfiguration of spanning trees), (iv) combined frameworks (decision making framework, framework for system testing/maintenance, planning in distributed computer environment), and (v) educational scheme based on k-set problems/frameworks.