Formal concept analysis ; Vol. 3403 ; 3rd International Conference, ICFCA 2005, Lens, France, February 14-18, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the state of the art of formal concept analysis and its applications. The first part of the book is devoted to foundational and methodological topics. The contributions in the second part demonstrate how formal concept analysis is successfully used outside of mathematics, in linguistics, text retrieval, association rule mining, data analysis, and economics. The third part presents applications in software engineering.