%A Bi Qiang, Teng Guangqing %T Analysis of the Progress and Hotspots in Applied Research of FCA and Concept Lattice Theory Abroad %0 Journal Article %D 2010 %J Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery %R 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2010.11.03 %P 17-23 %V 26 %N 11 %U {https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/CN/abstract/article_3297.shtml} %8 2010-11-25 %X

This article reviews and sums up the literatures on applied research of Formal Concept Analysis(FCA) and concept lattice theory abroad. It also analyzes the frontier development and research hotspots in four domains, namely study of Ontology, software engineering, knowledge discovery and semantic Web retrieval, which are the most representative and infective characters. In addition, it makes a prospect on the future research.