ICFCA 2007

Clermont-Ferrand, France, February 12-16, 2007

ICFCA'07 - Call for Papers Call For Papers.

Call for papers for ICFCA'07

We call for scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Note in Computer Science LNCS/LNAI series of Springer Verlag. Authors are requested to follow the author instructions.

Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theoretists and potential users of lattice theory. Since then Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a growing research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and an increasing number of applications in information and knowledge processing including vizualisation, data mining and analysis, and knowledge management.

The conference aims to unify theoretical and applied practitioners using Formal Concept Analysis drawing from the fields of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences, Software Engineering, Linguistics, and knowledge management. Other aspects are welcome.

  • Mathematics
  • Computer and Information Sciences
  • Software Engineering
  • FCA theory
  • Lattice Theory
  • Data Mining
  • Association Rules
  • FCA-based Knowledge Representation
  • Data Analysis
  • Algorithmics
  • Logics for/and FCA
  • Lattice Drawing
  • FCA and Software Engineering
  • FCA Tools

Instructions to authors

Here you can find some instruction about how to submit an article.

Submission

For all papers, a one page abstract in PostScript or PDF format should be received by Sept. 14, 2006. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.

You can help the editors by following the file naming suggestions.

The electronic submission of the full paper in Postscript or PDF format must be received on or before Sept. 24, 2006.

Submit your abstract and your paper using the electronic submission system. In case you have problems with electronic submission system, please contact the Chairs as early as possible

Formatting

Papers are limited to 16 pages in Springer's format. Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag.

Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

We strongly recommend the use of LATEX. Using other text formatting systems, such as MS Word, may result in technical problems, and it will be the author's task to solve these in accordance with Springer's requirements.

Style

The scientific community interested in the ICFCA conferences has many facets, and this is one of its strengths. But although we appreciate heterogeneity as a source of ideas, we should at the same time be as communicative as possible. We therefore recommend the following guidelines for ICFCA publications:

It is understood that the basic definitions of the field are common knowledge and should not be repeated in the presentations or the papers. The Conference proceedings will contain some tutorial material.

Authors should not introduce new notions unless there are good reasons. In particular, they should not invent new names or symbols for well known notions.

Both "Concept Lattices" and "Galois Lattices" are welcome, but the two languages should not be mixed. E.g., one should not speak of "the Galois lattice of a formal context", but rather of the "Concept lattice of a formal context" or the "Galois lattice of a binary relation", etc.

We recommend that those who prefer the term "Galois Lattice" use the notions of the book by Barbut and Monjardet Ordre et Classification, Algèbre et Combinatoire. Those who work with "Concept Lattices" should use the notions of Ganter/Wille Formal Concept Analysis.

Definitions and results which are contained in these books should not extensively be repeated, but be cited. This also holds for results and definitions from earlier ICFCA contributions.