Conceptual Exploration

• Main Authors: Ganter, Bernhard (Author), Obiedkov, Sergei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Algebra.; Ordered algebraic structures.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures.

This is the first textbook on attribute exploration, its theory, its algorithms for applications, and some of its many possible generalizations. Attribute exploration is useful for acquiring structured knowledge through an interactive process, by asking queries to an expert. Generalizations that han...

Table of Contents:

• What to expect from this book
• Concept lattices
• An algorithm for closure systems
• The canonical basis
• Attribute exploration
• Non-implicational background knowledge
• Enhancing the expressive power
• Relational Exploration
• Concept exploration. .