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Uncertain reasoning in concept lattices

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Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty (ECSQARU 1995)

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This paper presents concept lattices as a natural representation of class hierarchies in object-oriented databases and frame based knowledge representations. We show how to extend concept lattices by uncertainty in the form of conditional probabilities. We illustrate that uncertain reasoning within the hierarchical structure of concept lattices can be performed efficiently and makes uncertain conclusions more precise.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 2, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

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Lukasiewicz, T. (1995). Uncertain reasoning in concept lattices. In: Froidevaux, C., Kohlas, J. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60112-0_34

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