Flavour of null

2005-04-10 Thread Koray Atalag
Dear All, I had been pretty busy with an ambitious EU FP6 Project Proposal which is related with my thesis work as most of you are also aware of: CEREBRUS which we were not able to finish till the deadline at March 22. But we decided to move on and wait for next calls and look for other

Flavour of null

2005-04-10 Thread Thomas Beale
Elkin, Peter L., M.D. wrote: Sam, By way of a friendly amendment, I would say that the Information Model of Null should include both the type of Null and separately the reason for it being Null as separate attributes (employing an Ontology of Null). I agree that Null should be part of the

Confidence indicator [was Flavour of null]

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe AMELINE
Hi Koray, Don't you think that Null is not a singularity (I mean an isolated point), but the extreme value of a linear cursor we could name validity or confidence. To give a matter of fact example, I could say that : I can provide a value without any comment : I am confident in the quality