Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis
Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis
Course with SWS 2/2/0 (lecture/exercise/practical) in WS 2016
Due to lack of request, there will be no FCA Q&A session on 1st of February. Feel free to send me questions via email or schedule an appointment.
This course is an introduction into formal concept analysis (FCA), a mathematical theory oriented at applications in knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, data analysis and visualization. It provides tools for understanding the data by representing it as a hierarchy of concepts or, more exactly, a concept lattice. FCA can help in processing a wide class of data types providing a framework in which various data analysis and knowledge acquisition techniques can be formulated. In this course, we focus on some of these techniques, as well as cover the theoretical foundations and algorithmic issues of FCA.
Prerequisites
- basic knowledge of propositional and first-order logic
- some familiarity with computational complexity
Organisation
The first lecture will be on Wednesday, 12th October 2016, 16:40-18:10 (DS 6) in room APB E005.
The lecture is scheduled for Wednesdays, 16:40-18:10 (DS 6) and the tutorial for Wednesdays, 09:20-11:50 (DS2) in room APB E005.- Bernhard Ganter and Rudolf Wille, Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1999.
- Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni Romano, Concept Data Analysis: Theory and Applications, Wiley, 2004.
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2004-2012.
Subscribe to events of this course (icalendar)
| Lecture | Lecture 1 | DS6, October 12, 2016 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Tutorial 1 | DS2, October 26, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 2 | DS6, October 26, 2016 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | Tutorial 2 | DS2, November 2, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 3 | DS6, November 2, 2016 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | Tutorial 3 | DS2, November 9, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 4 | DS6, November 9, 2016 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | Tutorial 4 | DS2, November 23, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 5 | DS6, November 23, 2016 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | Tutorial 5 | DS2, November 30, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 6 | DS6, November 30, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 6 | DS2, December 7, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 7 | DS6, December 7, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 7 | DS2, December 14, 2016 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 8 | DS6, December 14, 2016 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | Tutorial 8 | DS2, January 4, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 9 | DS6, January 4, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 9 | DS2, January 11, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 10 | DS6, January 11, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 10 | DS2, January 18, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
| Lecture | Lecture 11 | DS6, January 18, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
| Exercise | Tutorial 11 | DS2, February 1, 2017 in APB E005 | File |
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