Call for Papers

              Advances in Formal Concept Analysis
             for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
                           (FCAKDD)

                        Workshop at the
                   15th European Conference
                  on Artificial Intelligence
                Lyon, France, July 22-26, 2002

Workshop Goals

The  main  purpose  of  this  workshop  is  to  bring  together
researchers and practitioners from the database, data  analysis
and  machine  learning communities who are working  on  or  are
interested  in (concept) lattice structures. The current  state
of the art in the respective domains will be discussed together
with  the future trends in the development of the lattice based
approaches.
The   workshop   will  address  the  general   principles   and
methodologies  for  the development of (concept)  lattice-based
knowledge discovery methods and tools.

Hence, we are inviting papers describing original contributions
to the theory and practice of concept lattices for KDD and more
generally, for modeling and managing conceptual structures. The
workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following
topics:

  -   Formalizing KDD tasks by means of lattice theory
-   Efficient mining algorithms based on lattices
-   Scalability and complexity of lattice algorithms
-   Computation and revision of concept lattices
-   Reduction of the lattice size (approximations, zooming,
irreducible elements, ...)
-   Interpretation of the concept lattices and their
structures
-   Iceberg concept lattices and concept lattice views.
-   Lattice drawing algorithms
-   Application of concept lattices to different types of data
(boolean, many-valued, symbolic, numerical, semi-structured,
...)
-   Lattice-based knowledge representation and modeling (DL,
UML, ...)
  -   Real world application of concept lattices
  -   Philosophical foundations for KDD

Results  should  be  demonstrated, whenever  possible,  through
examples  involving practical_ applications of concept lattices
for  knowledge  discovery (Biology, Genetics, Social  Sciences,
Banking,  ...).  Preference will be given to recent theoretical
and algorithmic contributions to KDD based on concept lattices.

Intended Audience

This  workshop aims at bringing together members  of  different
overlapping communities that share concept lattices as a kernel
for developing knowledge discovery from data methods and tools:

-   Database   researchers  who  use  lattices  for  generating
irredundant   association  rules,  functional  and  approximate
dependencies, accurate classification rules and Datacubes.

-  members of the machine learning and knowledge representation
communities, developing or using lattice-based systems.

-  members  of data analysis, knowledge modeling and management
communities, with an interest in formal concept analysis.

This  will  give an opportunity to push further the  discussion
upon  the potential of concept lattices for Knowledge Discovery
in Databases across these communities.

To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the
workshop will be limited to 40 participants. Participants will
be selected based on refereed submissions, or alternatively on
a statement of interest, or by invitation.
Workshop attendees must register for the main ECAI conference.

How to contribute
We  invite submissions of technical papers (12 pages) and short
position papers (two pages).

Format requirements for submissions of technical papers are:
?    maximum  12  pages,  Although  no  particular  format  for
  submission is required, we recommend to use directly the format
  requested  for camera-ready copies (see http://ecai2002.univ-
  lyon1.fr/show_en.pl?page=en/cfp/style.html).
?    All submissions should be made electronically if possible,
  by email attachment and preferably in Postscript or pdf format.
  Only  if electronic submission is impossible should you  send
  three hardcopies.
?    All  submissions  must  be sent to the  workshop  contact,
  Michel  Liquiere,  at liquiere@lirmm.fr or  Michel  Liquiere,
  LIRMM, 161 Rue ADA, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

Organizing Committee

Vincent Duquenne
Bernhard Ganter
Michel Liquiere (contact person)
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo
Gerd Stumme

Program Committee

Jean-Francois Boulicaut
Claudio Carpineto
Edwin Diday
Peter Eklund
Robert Godin
Sergej Kuznetsov
Lotfi Lakhal
Amedeo Napoli
Petko Valtchev
Rudolf Wille
Mohammed Zaki

Important Dates

28 April 2002 :    Submission of technical and position papers
17 May 2002 : Notification of acceptance
31 May 2002 : Camera-ready papers due

The workshop will be held on 22-23 July 2002, immediately prior
to the start of the main conference.

Additional informations

ECAI-2002 Homepage: http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/

Workshop Homepage: http://www.lattices.org