A Formal Concept Analysis Homepage

Uta Priss

Bibliography

  • A bibliography with links to on-line publications, to other bibliographies and to the tables of contents of conference proceedings.

Mailing List

 Examples of contexts/lattices (with cxt files)

Conferences on Formal Concept Analysis

current:
  • ICCS'08 in Toulouse, France, July 2008.
  • CLA'08 in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
past:
  • ICFCA'08 in Montreal, Canada, February 2008.
  • ICFCA'07 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, February 2007.
  • ICFCA'06 in Dresden, Germany, February 2006.
  • ICFCA'05 in Lens, France, February 2005.
  • ICFCA'04 in Sydney, Australia, February 2004
  • ICFCA'03 Darmstadt, Germany.
  • ICCS'07 in Sheffield, UK, July 2007.
  • ICCS'06 in Aalborg, Denmark, July 2006.
  • ICCS'05 in Kassel, Germany, July 2005.
  • ICCS'04 in Alabama, July 2004.
  • ICCS'03 in Dresden Germany, July 2003.
  • ICCS'02 in Borovets, Bulgaria, July 15 - 19, 2002.
  • ICCS'01 in Palo Alto, California, July 30 - Aug. 3, 2001.
  • ICCS'00 in Darmstadt, Germany, August 2000.
  • ICCS'99 in Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • CLA'07, Montpellier, France, October 2007.
  • CLA'06 in Tunisia, October 2006.
  • CLA'05 Czech Republic.
  • CLA'04 Czech Republic.
  • ACKE Workshop on "Advances in Conceptual Knowledge Engineering", Regensburg, Germany, September 2007.
  • KPP Knowledge Processing in Practice, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2007.
  • Russian Conference Knowledge - Ontology - Theory (with FCA as a topic) in Novosibirsk, September 2007.
  • ECAI 2002 workshop: Advances in Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • 1998 conference, Activities of the Formal Concept Analysis Group of the TU Darmstadt.

Open Problems

The participants of ICFCA'06 compiled a list of open problems. The community invites anybody who has a solution to any of these to submit it to any of the next FCA conferences.

Software

On-line demos: Downloadable software: Other Software:
  • Scola (Shell for Contextual Logic Applications)
  • Toscana, Anaconda, FCA Library, ConImp, Diagram, MBA (former FCA group of the TU Darmstadt), only ConImp is still available
  • Cernato (commercial software) by NaviCon
  • On-line Java lattice drawing tool
  • GLAD (General Lattice Analysis and Design), a DOS program, available from Vincent Duquenne.

Formal Concept Analysis Websites

Webpages in Related Disciplines

Introductions to Formal Concept Analysis

To navigate to any of the sections on this page, click on one of the yellow objects .

A Short Introduction

Formal Concept Analysis is a theory of data analysis which identifies conceptual structures among data sets. It was introduced by Rudolf Wille in 1982 and has since then grown rapidly. Three well-established annual international conferences (ICFCA, ICCS and CLA) are dedicated to FCA and related methods. The FCA method of formal data analysis has successfully been applied to many fields, such as medicine and psychology, musicology, linguistic databases, library and information science, software re-engineering, civil engineering, ecology, and others. A strong feature of Formal Concept Analysis is its capability of producing graphical visualizations of the inherent structures among data. Especially for social scientists, who often handle data sets that cannot fully be captured in quantitative analyses, Formal Concept Analysis extends the scientific toolbox of formal analysis methods. Statistics and Concept Analysis complement each other in this sense. In the field of information science there is a further application: the mathematical lattices that are used in Formal Concept Analysis can be interpreted as classification systems. Formalized classification systems can be analysed according to the consistency of their relations. Thesauri can automatically be constructed from classes and their attributes, without having to create a hierarchy of classes by hand. As an example, an on-line library catalog using the Conceptual Diagrams of an automatically constructed class hierarchy has been implemented in the ZIT library in Darmstadt.

An example of Formal Concept Analysis

An example of a formal context and a concept lattice (Galois lattice)

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