FCA using the Concept Explorer in 2024
Edith Vargas-GarcÍa, Andreas Wachtel
TL;DR
In this note, a very short introduction to Formal Concept Analysis is given, accompanied by an example in order to build concept lattices from a context, using the Java-based software Concept Explorer in a recent version of Linux.
Abstract
In this note we give a very short introduction to Formal Concept Analysis, accompanied by an example in order to build concept lattices from a context. We build the lattice using the Java-based software Concept Explorer (ConExp) in a recent version of Linux. Installing an appropriate Java version is necessary, because ConExp was developed some time ago using a Sun Java version, which is not open-source. As a result, it has been observed that ConExp will not build a lattice when started with an open-source Java version. Therefore, we also sketch the procedure we followed to install an appropriate Java version which makes ConExp work again, i.e., to "build lattices again". We also show how to start ConExp with a 32 bit Java version, which requires a few additional libraries.