12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA2014)
June 10 - 13, 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/icfca14/


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What is it?
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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 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.

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Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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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 (semantic web, description logics, ...)
- FCA and conceptual structures (concept graphs, knowledge space, ...)
- FCA and data analysis (hierarchical classification, data organization, ...)
- FCA and data mining (pattern mining)
- FCA and machine learning (learning with hypothesis, feature selection, ...)
- FCA and database theory (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 (sampling, parallel computing, ...)
- Analysis of social networks and their dynamics
- Applications for scientific data analysis (in biology, health, ...)
- Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces
- Other FCA applications


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Submission Details
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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 via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfca14. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by December 10, 2013. Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Accepted papers must 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.

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Important Dates
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submission of abstract: December 10 2013
submission of full paper: December 17 2013
notification of acceptance: February 15 2014
camera ready due: March 8 2014
conference: June 10-13 2014

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Organization
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The conference will be hosted by the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Conference Chair
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- Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Program Chairs
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- Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA de Lyon – LIRIS, France

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Local Organizers
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- Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Viorica Varga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Editorial Board (To be updated)
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- Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Felix Distel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
- Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
- Karl Erich Wolff, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
- Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France
- Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
- Raoul Medina, LIMOS, Université Clermont-Ferrand 2, France
- Robert Godin, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
- Robert Jäschke, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada
- Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Sebastien Ferré, Université de Rennes 1, France
- Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

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Honorary Member
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- Rudolf Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

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Program Committee
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- Alain Gély, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France
- Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
- Andreja Tepavčević, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- Camille Roth, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France
- Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
- Cynthia Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France
- François Brucker, Centrale Marseille, France
- Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain
- Jean-Marc Petit, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France
- Jonas Poelmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Karell Bertet, L3I, Université de La Rochelle, France
- Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary
- Lhouari Nourine, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France
- Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Université Montpellier, France
- Markus Krötzsch, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS, INSA Lyon, France
- Michal Krupka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Mike Bain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Radim Belohlávek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Sandor Radeleczki, University of Miskolc, Hungary
- Simon Andrews, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Stephan Doerfel, KDE Group, University of Kassel, Germany
- Tim Kaiser, SAP AG, Walldorf
- Vincent Duquenne, ECP6-CNRS, Université Paris 6, France
- Wilfried Lex, Universität Clausthal, Germany