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Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical framework for knowledge representation and discovery. It performs a hierarchical clustering over a set of objects described by attributes, resulting in conceptual structures in which objects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jessie Galasso

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is built on a special type of Galois connections called polarities. We present new results in formal concept analysis and in Galois connections by presenting new Galois connection results and then applying…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Jeffrey T. Denniston , Austin Melton , Stephen E. Rodabaugh

This paper is a tutorial on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its applications. FCA is an applied branch of Lattice Theory, a mathematical discipline which enables formalisation of concepts as basic units of human thinking and analysing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Dmitry I. Ignatov

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is an approach to creating a conceptual hierarchy in which a \textit{concept lattice} is generated from a \textit{formal context}. That is, a triple consisting of a set of objects, $G$, a set of attributes,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lucas Carr , Nicholas Leisegang , Thomas Meyer , Sebastian Rudolph

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is extensively used in knowledge extraction, cognitive concept learning, and data mining. However, its computational demands on large-scale datasets often require outsourcing to external computing services,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Qiangqiang Chen , Yunfeng Ke , Shen Li , Jinhai Li

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) begins from a context, given as a binary relation between some objects and some attributes, and derives a lattice of concepts, where each concept is given as a set of objects and a set of attributes, such that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Dusko Pavlovic

Formal Concept Analysis "FCA" is a data analysis method which enables to discover hidden knowledge existing in data. A kind of hidden knowledge extracted from data is association rules. Different quality measures were reported in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Dhouha Grissa , Sylvie Guillaume , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) provides a method called attribute exploration which helps a domain expert discover structural dependencies in knowledge domains that can be represented by a formal context (a cross table of objects and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Maximilian Felde , Gerd Stumme

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory based on the formalization of the notions of concept and concept hierarchies. It has been successfully applied to several Computer Science fields such as data mining,software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-29 Leonard Kwuida , Rokia Missaoui , Lahcen Boumedjout , Jean Vaillancourt

In order to address complex systems, apply pattern recongnition on their evolution could play an key role to understand their dynamics. Global patterns are required to detect emergent concepts and trends, some of them with qualitative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-05 Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral , Joaquín Borrego-Díaz , Juan Galán-Páez

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a well-founded method for data analysis and has many applications in data mining. Pattern structures is an extension of FCA for dealing with complex data such as sequences or graphs. However the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Aleksey Buzmakov , Sergei O. Kuznetsov , Amedeo Napoli

Embedding large and high dimensional data into low dimensional vector spaces is a necessary task to computationally cope with contemporary data sets. Superseding latent semantic analysis recent approaches like word2vec or node2vec are well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Tom Hanika , Maximilian Stubbemann

Data is always at the center of the theoretical development and investigation of the applicability of formal concept analysis. It is therefore not surprising that a large number of data sets are repeatedly used in scholarly articles and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tom Hanika , Robert Jäschke

We present a novel method that can learn a graph representation from multivariate data. In our representation, each node represents a cluster of data points and each edge represents the subset-superset relationship between clusters, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Yuka Yoneda , Mahito Sugiyama , Takashi Washio

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a well-established method for data analysis which finds many applications in data mining. Its extension on complex data representation formats brought a wave of new applications to the problems such as gene…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Dmitry Morozov , Mario Lezoche , Hervé Panetto

Although the notion of a concept as a collection of objects sharing certain properties, and the notion of a conceptual hierarchy are fundamental to both Formal Concept Analysis and Description Logics, the ways concepts are described and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-15 Baris Sertkaya

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) offers several tools for qualitative data analysis. One possibility is to group objects that share common attributes together and get a concept lattice that describes the data. Quite often the size of this…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Leonard Kwuida , Rostand Kuitché , Romuald Temgoua

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a classic statistical method for discovering latent co-variation that underpins two or more observed random vectors. Several extensions and variations of CCA have been proposed that have strengthened…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Paris A. Karakasis , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

The vast growth of data has rendered traditional manual inspection infeasible, necessitating the adoption of computational methods for efficient data exploration. Topic modeling has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing large-scale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Klara M. Gutekunst , Dominik Dürrschnabel , Johannes Hirth , Gerd Stumme

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) allows to analyze binary data by deriving concepts and ordering them in lattices. One of the main goals of FCA is to enable humans to comprehend the information that is encapsulated in the data; however, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Maren Koyda , Gerd Stumme
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