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                   ICFCA 2008
               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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The 6th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis
Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), February 25-29 2008
http://www.latece.uqam.ca/icfca08/

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) emerged in the 1980s from attempts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theorists 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 visualization, data mining, 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, Algorithms, Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, and Social Networks among other issues.

TOPICS

• FCA theory
• Lattice Theory
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Algorithms
• Logical aspects of FCA
• FCA-based Knowledge Representation
• Ontology building
• Folksonomies
• FCA and Social Networks
• Data Mining
• Association Rules
• Software Engineering
• Natural Language Processing with FCA
• Lattice Drawing
• FCA Tools

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jean-François Boulicaut
INSA Lyon, LIRIS CNRS, France
Title: Actionability and formal concepts: a data mining perspective

Stevan Harnad
University of Southampton
Title to be announced

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: What can A Butterfly Do among Bulls and Bears? Or What can Algebra do for Data Mining?

Ivo Rosenberg
Université de Montréal, Canada
Title: Galois connections in universal algebra and order theory

Rudolf Wille
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Title: Communicative Rationality, Logic, and Mathematics

ORGANIZATION

The conference will be hosted at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), Montréal, Canada. More details are available at http://www.latece.uqam.ca/icfca08.

General Chair:
 Robert Godin, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Program Chairs:
 Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Université Clermont-Ferrand 2, France (medina@isima.fr)
 Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Russia (sergei.obj@gmail.com)

Editorial Board:

• Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Robert Godin, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
• Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Russia
• Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
• Uta Priss, Napier University, United Kingdom
• Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Gregor Snelting, University of Passau, Germany
• Gerd Stumme, University Kassel, Germany
• Rudolf Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

Organization Commitee:

• Robert Godin, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
• Rokia Missaoui, UQO, Gatineau, Canada
• Petko Valtchev, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
• Mehdi Adda, UdeM, Montreal, Canada