Formal Concept Analysis – Overview and Applications

In this article we give a brief overview of the theory behind the formal concept analysis, a novel method for data representation and analysis. From given tabular input data this method finds all formal concepts and computes a concept lattice, a directed, acyclic graph, in which all formal concepts...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Procedia engineering 2014, Vol.69, p.1258-1267
Main Authors: Škopljanac-Mačina, Frano, Blašković, Bruno
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
computer aided learning
concept hierarchy
FCA
formal data analysis
lattice
line diagram
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:In this article we give a brief overview of the theory behind the formal concept analysis, a novel method for data representation and analysis. From given tabular input data this method finds all formal concepts and computes a concept lattice, a directed, acyclic graph, in which all formal concepts are hierarchically ordered. We describe the link between this method and formal logic, as well as graph theory. Finally we present one example of an application of this method in the field of computer aided learning.
ISSN:1877-7058
1877-7058
DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2014.03.117