Monotone concepts for formal concept analysis

Abstract

Formal concept analysis has been a topic of interest for about two decades. The mathematical notion of concept has its origin in formal logic. However, the empirical notion of concept has evolved through its use in many different disciplines. In this paper, we generalize the mathematical notion of concept and investigate order-theoretic properties of concept hierarchies for the new notion of concept.

Department(s)

Computer Science

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2004.05.001

Keywords

formal concept analysis, generalization, elementary concepts, monotone concepts, concept lattice

Publication Date

2004

Journal Title

Discrete Applied Mathematics

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