Limits and Potential Solutions to Represent and Analyze Multidimensional and Heterogeneous Situations

The universe is made of multidimensional and heterogenous interactions which can be represented by a graph. These interactions and the entities they connect are heterogeneous and multidimensional. However, current graph representations and analytic techniques often focus on homogeneous and “flat” graphs, which are insufficient to represent real and more complex phenomena. We start by giving an overview of current graph classes and analytics techniques. Then, our article aims to show two issues: firstly, how these representations and analytics methods are limited and secondly, the possible solutions to overcome the multidimensionality and the heterogeneity of situations at the same time. In the end, we identify hypernetworks as a possible solution to address these limits.