Concept Lattices and Their Applications: Fourth International Conference, Cla 2006 Tunis, Tunisia, October 30-november 1, 2006 Selected Papers - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Annotated edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Also available in print.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2008. Table of Contents: Invited Contributions -- An Intelligent User Interface for Browsing and Searching MPEG-7 Images Using Concept Lattices / Jon Ducrou, Peter Eklund, Tim Wilson -- First Elements on Knowledge Discovery Guided by Domain Knowledge (KDDK) / Jean Lieber, Amedeo Napoli, Laszlo Szathmary, Yannick Toussaint -- Formal Concept Analysis as Applied Lattice Theory / Rudolf Wille -- Foundations -- Direct Factorization by Similarity of Fuzzy Concept Lattices by Factorization of Input Data / Radim Belohlavek, Jan Outrata, Vilem Vychodil -- Succinct System of Minimal Generators: A Thorough Study, Limitations and New Definitions / Tarek Hamrouni, Sadok Ben Yahia, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo -- Closure Systems of Equivalence Relations and Their Labeled Class Geometries / Tim B. Kaiser -- Generalizations of Approximable Concept Lattice / Xueyou Chen, Qingguo Li, Fei Long, Zike Deng -- Methods -- Rule Validation of a Meta-classifier Through a Galois (Concept) Lattice and Complementary Means / Mohamed Aoun-Allah, Guy Mineau -- Graded LinClosure and Its Role in Relational Data Analysis / Radim Belohlavek, Vilem Vychodil -- Yet Another Approach for Completing Missing Values / Leila Ben Othman, Sadok Ben Yahia -- Efficient Generic Association Rules Based Classifier Approach / Ines Bouzouita, Samir Elloumi -- Galois Lattices and Bases for M[subscript GK]-Valid Association Rules / Jean Diatta, Daniel R. Feno, Andre Totohasina -- Generic Association Rule Bases: Are They so Succinct? / Tarek Hamrouni, Sadok Ben Yahia, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo -- Concept Lattice Representations of Annotated Taxonomies / Tim B. Kaiser, Stefan E. Schmidt, Cliff A. Joslyn -- An Algorithm to Find Frequent Concepts of a Formal Context with Taxonomy / Peggy Cellier, Sebastien Ferre, Olivier Ridoux, Mireille Ducasse -- Applications -- Unique Factorization Theorem and Formal Concept Analysis / Peter Mihok, Gabriel Semanisin -- Towards Concise Representation for Taxonomies of Epistemic Communities / Camille Roth, Sergei Obiedkov, Derrick Kourie -- Towards an Iterative Classification Based on Concept Lattice / Stephanie Guillas, Karell Bertet, Jean-Marc Ogier -- Using Formal Concept Analysis for Mining and Interpreting Patient Flows within a Healthcare Network / Nicolas Jay, Francois Kohler, Amedeo Napoli -- Using FCA to Suggest Refactorings to Correct Design Defects / Naouel Moha, Jihene Rezgui, Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, Petko Valtchev, Ghizlane El Boussaidi -- Type Signature Induction with FCAType / Wiebke Petersen -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Concept Lattices and their Applications, CLA 2006, held in Tunis, Tunisia, October 30-November 1, 2006. The 18 revised full papers together with 3 invited contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The topics include formal concept analysis, foundations of FCA, mathematical structures related to FCA, relationship of FCA to other methods of data analysis, visualization of data in FCA, and applications of FCA.