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Continuous Domains in Formal Concept Analysis [PDF]
Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has been proven to be an effective method of restructuring complete lattices and various algebraic domains. In this paper, the notion of contractive mappings over formal contexts is proposed, which can be viewed as a generalization of interior operators on sets into the framework of FCA.
Longchun Wang, Lankun Guo, Qingguo Li
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Meta-Modelling in Formal Concept Analysis
Formal Concept Analysis starts from a very basic data structure comprising objects and their attributes. Sometimes, however, it is beneficial to also define attributes of attributes, viz., meta-attributes. In this paper, we use Triadic Formal Concept Analysis, a triadic approach to Formal Concept Analysis, to develop a framework for this kind of meta ...
Wang, Yingjian
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Characterizing One-Sided Formal Concept Analysis by Multi-Adjoint Concept Lattices
Managing and extracting information from databases is one of the main goals in several fields, as in Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). One-sided concept lattices and multi-adjoint concept lattices are two frameworks in FCA that have been developed in ...
María José Benítez-Caballero +2 more
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On inference rules in decision formal contexts [PDF]
Rule acquisition is one of the main purposes in the analysis of decision formal contexts. In general, the number of implications in a decision formal context is an exponential increase to the scale of the database.
Jinhai Li +3 more
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An Order-Theoretic Study on Formal Concept Analysis
This paper employs an order-theoretic framework to explore the intricacies of formal concepts. Initially, we establish a natural correspondence among formal contexts, preorders, and the resulting partially ordered sets (posets).
Yu-Ru Syau, En-Bing Lin, Churn-Jung Liau
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Method of Updating Formal Concept Under Covering Multi-granularity [PDF]
Multi-granularity formal concept analysis is an important tool for data mining and knowledge discovery.This paper studies the methods of coarsening and refining formal concepts under multi-granularity.Firstly,it is proved that the existing concept ...
WANG Taibin, LI Deyu, ZHAI Yanhui
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Conceptual Coverage Driven by Essential Concepts: A Formal Concept Analysis Approach
Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory that is typically used as a knowledge representation method. The approach starts with an input binary relation specifying a set of objects and attributes, finds the natural groupings (formal concepts)
Amira Mouakher +3 more
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Survey on attribute and concept reduction methods in formal concept analysis
Formal concept analysis (FCA) is now widely recognized as a useful approach for extracting, representing, and analyzing knowledge in various domains. The high computational cost of knowledge processing and the difficulty of visualizing the lattice are ...
Kovács, László +3 more
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Concept similarity in formal concept analysis
The identification of syntactically different concepts that are semantically similar, also referred to as Similarity Reasoning, is fundamental in several research areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineer- ing, Cognitive Science and, in particular, in Semantic Web.
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Study of Implication Representation Based on Decision Implication
Formal concept analysis can use concept lattice and (attribute) implication to visualize and represent knowledge. Decision implication is a special implication, and the study of decision implication is to establish and study one or more closed subsystems
WANG Yali, ZHAI Yanhui, ZHANG Shaoxia, JIA Nan, LI Deyu
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