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Formal concept analysis on its way from mathematics to computer science. (English) Zbl 1067.68704

Priss, Uta (ed.) et al., Conceptual structures: Integration and interfaces. 10th international conference, ICCS 2002, Borovets, Bulgaria, July 15–19, 2002. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-43901-3). Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2393, 2-19 (2002).
Summary: In the last years, the main orientation of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has turned from mathematics towards computer science. This article provides a review of this new orientation and analyzes why and how FCA and computer science attracted each other. It discusses FCA as a knowledge representation formalism using five knowledge representation principles provided by R. Davis, H. Shrobe, and P. Szolovits [“What is a knowledge representation?”, AI Magazine 14, No. 1, 17–33 (1993)]. It then studies how and why mathematics-based researchers got attracted by computer science. We will argue for continuing this trend by integrating the two research areas FCA and Ontology Engineering.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0993.00043].

MSC:

68T30 Knowledge representation
68-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to computer science

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