Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications: 3626 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3626) - Softcover

 
9783540278917: Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications: 3626 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3626)
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ISBN 10: 3540278915 ISBN 13: 9783540278917
Publisher: Springer, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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This is the first textbook on formal concept analysis. It gives a systematic presentation of the mathematical foundations and their relations to applications in computer science, especially in data analysis and knowledge processing. Above all, it presents graphical methods for representing conceptual systems that have proved themselves in communicating knowledge. Theory and graphical representation are thus closely coupled together. The mathematical foundations are treated thoroughly and illuminated by means of numerous examples. Since computers are being used ever more widely for knowledge processing, formal methods for conceptual analysis are gaining in importance. This book makes the basic theory for such methods accessible in a compact form.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540278915
ISBN 13 
9783540278917
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
359
Editor
Ganter Bernhard, Stumme Gerd, Wille Rudolf

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