Gerd Stumme,
Formal Concept Analysis on Its Way from Mathematics to
Computer Science,
In Uta Priss, Dan Corbett and Galia Angelova eds., Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
Conceptual Structures, (ICCS 2002),
Borovets, Bulgaria, No. 2393 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 2-19, Springer-Verlag, July 15-19 2002.In the last years, the main orientation of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has turned from mathematics towards computer science. This article provides a review of this new orientation and analyzes why and how FCA and computer science attracted each other. It discusses FCA as a knowledge representation formalism using five knowledge representation principles provided by Davis, Shrobe, and Szolovits [15]. It then studies how and why mathematics-based researchers got attracted by computer science. We will argue for continuing this trend by integrating the two research areas FCA and Ontology Engineering.