RUZA Workshop

About the workshop

The RuZA workshop (RuZA2015) was an international Russian-South African workshop on applications of Formal Concept Analysis in Computer Science and Data Analysis. All of the contributed research papers reported on research where models based on Formal Concept Analysis were extensively used. Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a branch of lattice theory motivated by the need for a clear formalization of the notions of concept and conceptual hierarchy. It has been successfully used for conceptual clustering and association-rule mining. We believe that formal concept analysis and its extensions can contribute to the analysis and mining of social networks, text mining, modelling processes, and political studies, among other fields. The objective of the RuZA workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the ways FCA can be used in various applications related to these domains. The workshop program included an introductory talk "Towards Efficient, Real-time Pocket Data Mining: Current Trends and Open Challenges" given by Herna L. Viktor from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, as well as regular talks followed by a panel discussions. The proceedings of RuZA workshop include seven papers that were reviewed by at least two reviewers. We would like to thank all the authors for their contributions and the organizers of RuZA 2015 for their kind support in hosting the workshop. Our warm thanks go also to the reviewers for their careful review of the submissions and their useful comments and suggestions. Finally, we would like to thank Russian foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 14-01-93960) and National Research Foundation of South Africa (grant no. 92187) for financial support of research collaboration and organization of the workshop.

Place: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dates: 30.11.2015 - 05.12.2015
Co-Chair: Bruce Watson, Sergey O.Kuznetsov.

Program Committee

Jaume Baixeries & The Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya

Arina Britz & CAIR, CSIR and Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ekaterina Chernyak & National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Bernd Fischer & Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Gillian Greene & Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Dmitry Ignatov & National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Dmitry Ilvovsky & Higher School of Economics, Russia

Mehdi Kaytoue & LIRIS -- INSA de Lyon, France

Derrick Kourie & Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Sergei Kuznetsov & National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Amedeo Napoli & LORIA Nancy, France

Sergei Obiedkov & National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Bruce Watson & Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (not exceeding 12 pages) or short papers (up to 6 pages) in Springer LNCS style.

Papers should present original and not previously published or concurrently submitted to another conference or journal work. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system.

Submitted papers should be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to assess the merits of the paper on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the conference topics, originality, significance, and clarity of presentation.

The program committee expects that authors are ready to submit high-quality research papers in English and at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present their study. Note that we welcome not only participants from Russia and South Africa.

The link for submission is available here.

The submissions should contain an abstract and a set of keywords describing the paper.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two PC members or external expert reviewers.

Accepted papers:

Ekaterina Chernyak and Dmitry Ilvovsky. Visualisation of Russian Newspaper Corpus by Means of Reference Graphs.
Gillian Greene, Marcel Dunaiski, Bernd Fischer, Dmitry Ilvovsky and Sergei O. Kuznetsov. Browsing Publication Data using Tag Clouds over Formal Concept Lattices Constructed by Key-Phrase Extraction.
Dmitry I. Ignatov and Bruce W. Watson.Towards a Unified Taxonomy of Biclustering Methods.
Alexey Neznanov and Derrick Kourie. Formal Concept Analysis Research Toolbox and Failure Deterministic Finite Automata.
On Generating a Random Deterministic Finite Automaton as well as its Failure Equivalent. Madoda Nxumalo, Derrick G. Kourie, Loek Cleophas and Bruce Watson.
Sergei Obiedkov and Nikita Romashkin. Collaborative Conceptual Exploration as a Tool for Crowdsourcing Domain Ontologies.
Andrey Parinov and Alexey Neznanov. Full-Text Search in Intermediate Data Storage of FCART.