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ICFCA 2021

16th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis

June 29 -- July 2, 2021, Strasbourg, France

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* Overview

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 and discovery.

The ICFCA conference series aims at bringing 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.

All accepted submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will
be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series.

* Topics

Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

** Fundamental aspects of FCA

- FCA theory
- Lattice theory
- Lattice drawing
- Philosophical foundations
- Algorithms and complexity theory

** Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence

- FCA and logic, e.g., semantic web, description logics
- FCA and conceptual structures, e.g., concept graphs, knowledge spaces
- FCA and data analysis, e.g., hierarchical classification, data organization
- FCA and data mining, e.g., pattern mining
- FCA and information retrieval, e.g. exploratory search, navigation, querying
- FCA and machine learning, e.g., learning with hypothesis, feature selection
- FCA and database theory, e.g., dependencies, rules, data cubes
- FCA and software engineering
- FCA and morphological mathematics

** Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA

- Analysis of "big data" with FCA, e.g., sampling, parallel computing
- Analysis of social networks and their dynamics
- Applications for scientific data analysis, e.g., in biology or health care
- Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces
- Other FCA applications

* 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 format via
the Easychair system

(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca2021).

Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer
LNCS style [1]. Submissions in LaTeX2e are preferred. Authors are encouraged to
provide an ORCID alongside their submission [2].

Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference. Therefore, at least one
author per paper has to register timely.

[1]: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
[2]: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid

* Important Dates

Submission of abstract: *January 18, 2021* -)) January 25
Submission of full paper: *January 25, 2021* -)) February 3
Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2021
Camera ready due: April 5, 2021
Conference: June 29 -- July 2, 2021

* Organization

The conference will be hosted by Université de Strasbourg

** Conference Chairs

Florence Le Ber, ICUBE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ENGEES, France
Agnès Braud, ICUBE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, France

** Program Chairs

Aleksey Buzmakov, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Tom Hanika, Universität Kassel, Germany

** Editorial Board

Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Catalonia
Karell Bertet, L3I, Université de La Rochelle, France
Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France
Florent Domenach, Akita International University, Japan
Peter Eklund, Deakin University, Australia
Sebastien Ferré, Université de Rennes 1, France
Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, France
Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain
Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Barış Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Gerd Stumme, Universität Kassel, Germany
Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

** Program Committee (to be confimed)

Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
François Brucker, Centrale Marseille, France
Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Victor Codocedo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Pablo Cordero, University of Málaga, Spain
Diana Cristea, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Christophe Demko, L3I lab, Université de La Rochelle, France
Jean Diatta, Université de la Réunion, France
Stephan Doerfel, MICROMATA GmbH, Germany
Xavier Dolques, ICube, Université de Strasbourg, France
Alain Gély, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France
Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Université Montpellier, France
Jan Konecny, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Wilfried Lex, Universität Clausthal, Germany
Jesús Medina, Cadiz University, Spain
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France
Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France
Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic
Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France
Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM, Université Montpellier, France
Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France
Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Andreja Tepavčević, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Martin Trnecka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Jean-François Viaud, L3I lab, Université de La Rochelle, France