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Asymmetric Page Split Generalized Index Search Trees for Formal Concept Analysis

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Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2006)

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Formal Concept Analysis is an unsupervised machine learning technique that has successfully been applied to document organisation by considering documents as objects and keywords as attributes. The basic algorithms of Formal Concept Analysis then allow an intelligent information retrieval system to cluster documents according to keyword views. This paper investigates the scalability of this idea. In particular we present the results of applying spatial data structures to large datasets in formal concept analysis. Our experiments are motivated by the application of the Formal Concept Analysis idea of a virtual filesystem [11,17,15]. In particular the libferris [1] Semantic File System. This paper presents customizations to an RD-Tree Generalized Index Search Tree based index structure to better support the application of Formal Concept Analysis to large data sources.

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  1. Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Ben Martin

  2. School of Economics and Information Systems, The University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Peter Eklund

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari,  

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, NC 28223, Charlotte, USA

    Zbigniew W. Raś

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Donato Malerba

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italia

    Giovanni Semeraro

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Martin, B., Eklund, P. (2006). Asymmetric Page Split Generalized Index Search Trees for Formal Concept Analysis. In: Esposito, F., Raś, Z.W., Malerba, D., Semeraro, G. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11875604_25

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