Formal Concept Analysis Foundations and Applications
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
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
3626
Bernhard Ganter Gerd Stumme Rudolf Wille (Eds.)
Formal Concept Analysis Foundations and Applications
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Bernhard Ganter TU Dresden, Institut für Algebra 01062 Dresden, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Gerd Stumme Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, 34121 Kassel, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Rudolf Wille Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Mathematik Schloßgartenstr. 7, 64289 Darmstadt E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005929194
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, G.2.1-2, F.4.1-2, D.2.4, H.3 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-27891-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-27891-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Formal Concept Analysis has been developed as a field of applied mathematics based on a mathematization of concept and concept hierarchy. It thereby allows us to mathematically represent, analyze and construct conceptual structures. That has been proven useful in a wide range of application areas such as medicine and psychology, sociology and linguistics, archaeology and anthropology, biology and chemistry, civil and electrical engineering, information and library sciences, information technology and software engineering, computer science and even mathematics itself. More than 25 years of research have built up a rich mathematical theory and many application methods and procedures which are presented in more than 500 scientific publications. The basics of the mathematical theory were represented in the monograph “Formale Begriffsanalyse: Mathematische Grundlagen” (Springer 1996) and its English translation “Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations” (Springer, 1999). Applications with the focus on conceptual knowledge processing are broadly discussed in the volumes “Begriffliche Wissensverarbeitung: Grundfragen und Aufgaben” (B.I.-Wissenschaftsverlag 1994) and “Begriffliche Wissenverarbeitung: Methoden und Anwe
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