[SIGCIS-Members] Tree diagrams in computer science and other fields (i.e. genealogy)

[John Lowry]

Work has  been done on attack trees in red teaming and vulnerability analysis that was inspired by work using trees for fault tolerance analysis.  These trees have some unique features by using multiple variables per node to estimate decision making and the number of links per node or the ‘bushiness’ of the graph segment to estimate the richness of an attack surface.



> On Mar 26, 2020, at 8:00 PM, Allan Olley <allan.olley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    I don't imagine it is a better reference than those already supplied. However I recall a presentation by noted Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking on the history and uses of tree diagrams including in logic and genealogy. It was a sideline for him and I think it may have been more speculative than rigorous but perhaps of some interest.
>    A quick search suggests he published the results in an essay "Trees of logic, trees of porphyry" in Advancements of Learning Essays in honour of Paolo Rossi, 2007, ( https://www.worldcat.org/title/advancements-of-learning-essays-in-honour-of-paolo-rossi/oclc/173071528 )
> 
> -- 
> Yours Truly,
> Allan Olley, PhD
> 
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>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Bernard Geoghegan wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> A little query sent across the lockdowns and quarantines: Can anyone
>> recommend scholarship on the tree-style diagrams that circulate both in
>> computer science and a wide range of other fields, for example, genealogy,
>> kinship? Is there any good work on the history of these diagrams, their
>> intersection, and what they might say about possible links in styles of
>> reasoning across fields that might, otherwise, seem remote?
>> 
>> Thanks for your thoughts,
>> b
>> 
>> 
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>> Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
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>> Chair of the UG Assessment Board, Digital Culture
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