Remarks on classifications and adjunctions

Jon Barwise and Jerry Seligman introduced the category of classifications and infomorphisms to model information theoretical concepts and information flow processes. This is the dual category of the category of Chu spaces introduced by Michael Barr and Peter Chu and studied extensively by Vaughan Pratt, Gordon Plotkin and others at Stanford. It is also very closely related to the theory of institutions introduced in a different context by Joseph Goguen and Rod Burstall. Here some aspects of the theory are reviewed and some adjunctions between the category of classifications and other related categories are studied from a more abstract point of view.