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Rearrangement of Fuzzy Formal Contexts for Reducing Cost of Algorithms

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The influence of attribute ordering on the runtime efficiency of FCA algorithms has long been a subject of conjecture, yet no prior published work has directly addressed this issue. This paper proposes a novel approach, introducing criteria for ranking attribute importance within an L-fuzzy formal context. The primary objective is to reduce the runtime of concept lattice construction algorithms by strategically reordering attributes based on these criteria.

This work has been partially funded by the State Agency of Research (AEI), the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), the European Social Research Fund (FEDER), the Junta de Andalucía (JA), y la Universidad de Málaga (UMA) through the PhD contract FPU19/01467 (MCIU), the VALID research project (PID2022-140630NB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and the research project PID2021-127870OB-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE).

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López-Rodríguez, D., Ojeda-Hernández, M. (2024). Rearrangement of Fuzzy Formal Contexts for Reducing Cost of Algorithms. In: Cabrera, I.P., Ferré, S., Obiedkov, S. (eds) Conceptual Knowledge Structures. CONCEPTS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14914. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67868-4_8

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