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Formal Concept Analysis

Foundations and Applications

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3626)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Software Engineering

    1. A Survey of Formal Concept Analysis Support for Software Engineering Activities

      • Thomas Tilley, Richard Cole, Peter Becker, Peter Eklund
      Pages 250-271
    2. Concept Lattices in Software Analysis

      • Gregor Snelting
      Pages 272-287
    3. Formal Concept Analysis Used for Software Analysis and Modelling

      • Wolfgang Hesse, Thomas Tilley
      Pages 288-303
    4. The ToscanaJ Suite for Implementing Conceptual Information Systems

      • Peter Becker, Joachim Hereth Correia
      Pages 324-348
  3. Back Matter

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Algebra, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Bernhard Ganter

  • Research Center L3S, Hannover, Germany

    Gerd Stumme

  • Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt

    Rudolf Wille

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