Formal Concept Analysis 16th International Conference, ICFCA 2021, Strasbourg, France, June 29 – July 2, 2021, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2021, held in Strasbourg, France, in June/July 2021.

The 14 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The book also contains four invited contributions in full paper length.

Representing partition lattices through FCA.- Fixed-Point Semantics for Barebone Relational Concept Analysis.- Boolean Substructures in Formal Concept Analysis.- Enumerating Maximal Consistent Closed Sets in Closure Systems.- A new Kind of Implication to Reason with Unknown Information.- Pruning Techniques in LinCbO for Computation of the Duquenne-Guigues Basis.- Approximate Computation of Exact Association Rules.- An Incremental Recomputation of From-Below Boolean Matrix Factorization.- Clustering and Identification of Core Implications for Grouping Objects.- Extracting Relations in Texts with Concepts of Neighbours.- Triadic Exploration and Exploration with Multiple Experts.- Towards Interactive Transition from AOC Poset to Concept Lattice.- Visualization of Statistical Information in Concept Lattice Diagrams.- Force-Directed Layout of Order Diagrams Using Dimensional Reduction.- Sandwich: an Algorithm for Discovering Relevant Link Keys in an LKPS Concept Lattice.- Decision Concept Lattice vs Decision Trees and Random Forests.- Exploring Scale-Measures of Data Sets.- Filters, Ideals and Congruence on Double Boolean Algebras.- Diagrammatic Representations of Conceptual Structures.