Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

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.Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), 2005 was published 2005 under ISBN 9783540278917 and ISBN 3540278915.