Connecting concept lattices with bonds induced by external information.

Abstract

In Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), L-bonds represent relationships between L-formal contexts. Choosing the appropriate bond between L-fuzzy formal contexts is an important challenge for its application in recommendation tasks. Recent work introduced two constructions of bonds, given by direct products of two L-fuzzy formal contexts, and showed their usefulness in a particular application. In this paper, we present further theoretical and experimental results on these constructions; in particular, we provide extended interpretations of both rigorous and benevolent concept-forming operators, introduce new theoretical properties of the proposed bonds to connect two concept lattices given external information, and finally present the experimental study of the upper bounds.