ICFCA 2015 - International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis 2015

Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980′s from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management.
The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc.
There will be a special session entitled "Practical Graph Applications in Artificial Intelligence".
This special session seeks to bring together researchers from disparate Artificial Intelligence communities that employ graph based formalisms. Its aim is to promote a deeper understanding of recent breakthroughs and challenges in handling graphs for knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) (such as large scale representation and reasoning, open data, mining techniques, graph databases, graph based representation of preferences, Bayes Networks, Neural Networks etc.). Especially Conceptual Graphs (CGs) related submissions are encouraged due to the long standing tradition of Conceptual Structures in KRR for AI. We hope that this special session will encourage collaborative efforts towards addressing actual knowledge representation and reasoning challenges.