Manipulation of information representations

Information Representations, IR, are linear representations of topological maps that can be used to describe virtually any abstract, static or dynamic data. An IR can be manipulated to obtain mathematically equivalent forms that are either unique (normal) or alternative (canonical) representations. This concise paper draws attention to the recently developed high-speed chain-tracing algorithms for obtaining normal and canonical forms of IR's. Copies of the submitted full length paper will be available at the conference.