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Overview
Formal concept analysis has been developed as a field of applied mathematics based on the mathematization of concept and concept hierarchy. It thereby allows us to mathematically represent, analyze, and construct conceptual structures. The formal concept analysis approach has been proven successful in a wide range of application fields.
This book constitutes a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the state of the art of formal concept analysis and its applications. The first part of the book is devoted to foundational and methodological topics. The contributions in the second part demonstrate how formal concept analysis is successfully used outside of mathematics, in linguistics, text retrieval, association rule mining, data analysis, and economics. The third part presents applications in software engineering.
Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2005, held in Lens, France in February 2005.
The 28 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers reflect both progress in the foundational theory of formal concept analysis and its practical applications; algorithmic aspects are discussed as well as efforts to broaden the field.