Conceptual Exploration

Bernhard Ganter is emeritus professor of mathematics at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His main research field is Formal Concept Analysis.Sergei Obiedkov is an associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. His research covers topics in data analysis and artificial intelligence, including logical and algorithmic aspects.

“The book reads smoothly, emphasizes examples over theorems, and has pictures (mainly of concept lattices) and tables galore. … I thus recommend it to all researchers concerned with FCA or query learning.” (Marcel Wild, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2017)“The book is a very pleasant and interesting reading on attribute exploration from formal concept analysis. Reading it, I felt that all the theoretical background is thoroughly described and always accompanied with many explanations. It also abounds in very illustrative examples, whose solutions are given step by step. … This is a book written with a lot of enthusiasm all of which will be transferred to its readers.” (Catalin Stoean, zbMATH 1357.68004, 2017)

• What to expect from this book.- Concept lattices.- An algorithm for closure systems.- The canonical basis.- Attribute exploration.- Non-implicational background knowledge.- Enhancing the expressive power.- Relational Exploration.- Concept exploration.