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The development of the theory of Formal Concept Analysis has been accompanied from its beginning by applications of the theory to real-world problems. Those applications gave rise to the implementation of the software Toscana and the creation of Toscana-systems. In this paper, we provide a mathematical model for these systems. This model – called Conceptual Data System – enables us to describe Toscana-systems and to discuss possible extensions in mathematical terminology.
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Correia, J.H., Kaiser, T.B. (2004). A Mathematical Model for TOSCANA-Systems: Conceptual Data Systems. In: Eklund, P. (eds) Concept Lattices. ICFCA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2961. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24651-0_4
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