ICFCA 2012
10th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2012) May 6-10, 2012, Leuven, Belgium

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

• FCA theory
• Lattice Theory
• Lattice Drawing
• Philosophical Foundations
• FCA and Logic
• Conceptual Knowledge
• Concept Graphs
• Data Analysis
• FCA and Data Mining
• Association Rules and Pattern Mining
• Analysis of Social Networks
• Data Mining on Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web
• Algorithms and Complexity Theory
• FCA and Software Engineering
• Biclustering and n-relational clustering
• 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 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. For more information: www.econ.kuleuven.be/ICFCA. Co-located with ICFCA will be held the workshops “Concept Discovery in Unstructured Data” and “CUBIST”. Also information regarding these workshops can be found on the website.

Important Dates
submission of abstracts: November 30, 2011 -) December 14, 2011 EXTENDED !
submission of full papers: December 16, 2011 -) December 30, 2011 EXTENDED !
notification of acceptance: February 1, 2012
camera ready copies due: February 27, 2012

Organization
The conference will be hosted by the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium.
Conference Chair:
Jonas Poelmans, Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium
Program Chairs:
• Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
• Dmitry Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
There will be three workshops (CDUD 2012, CUBIST 2012 and EEML 2012) in conjunction with the main conference.
Editorial Board:

• Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Sebastien Ferré, Université de Rennes 1, France
• Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Robert Godin, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
• Robert Jäschke, Universität Kassel, Germany
• Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
• Leonard Kwuida, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Université Clermont-Ferrand 2, France
• Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada
• Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
• Uta Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany
• Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
• Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Rudolf Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

Program Committee: (to be confirmed)

• Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain
• Peter Becker, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Radim Belohlavek, Binghamton University - State University of New York, USA
• Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
• Karell Bertet, L3I, Université de La Rochelle, France
• Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
• Nathalie Caspard, LACL, Université Paris 12, France
• Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany
• Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Université Paris 6, France
• Alain Gély, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France
• Joachim Hereth, DMC GmbH, Germany
• Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
• Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Université Montpellier, France
• Tim B. Kaiser, SAP AG, Germany
• Derrick G. Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Markus Krötzsch, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
• Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Wilfried Lex, Universität Clausthal, Germany
• Lotfi Lakhal, Aix-Marseille Université, France
• Bruno Leclerc, CAMS-EHESS, Paris, France
• Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France
• Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
• Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France
• Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France
• Alex Pogel, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
• Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary
• Olivier Raynaud, LIMOS, Université Blaise Pascal, France
• Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France
• Mohamed Rouane-Hacene, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
• Jürg Schmid, Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Andreja Tepavčević, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
• Vilem Vychodil, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Guido Dedene, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Stijn Viaene, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Laczlo Szathmary, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
• Mehdi Kaytoue, LORIA, Nancy, France
• Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Simon Andrews, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Robert Jäschke, University of Kassel, Germany



Organization Committee:
• Jasper Goyvaerts
• Elien Poelmans