ICFCA 2012

Short ICFCA introduction

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.

Submission Details

We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF or Postscript format. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by November 30, 2011.

The submission is to be done via the conference EasyChair account at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca2012.

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

Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series.

There is a tradition of ICFCA to publish the papers which are not acceptable for the main proceedings, but still contain valuable research, in a supplementary volume. This year the publisher is KU Leuven and the book will have an ISBN number. We hope that all authors of papers, which were accepted to the supplementary volume, will be able to participate and share their ideas with the ICFCA audience. Camera ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared in LNCS format and should respect the 16 pages limit.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Edition of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies.

Organization

The conference will be hosted by the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium.