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Formal Concept Analysis of Procedure Call Relations. Christopher Taylor. Formal Concept Analysis. Foundations notion of “concept” in logic(19th Century) Lattice Theory (~1940’s) Introduced by Rudolf Wille (1979) A discrete technique for data analysis and knowledge processing
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Formal Concept AnalysisofProcedure Call Relations Christopher Taylor
Formal Concept Analysis • Foundations • notion of “concept” in logic(19th Century) • Lattice Theory (~1940’s) • Introduced by Rudolf Wille (1979) • A discrete technique for data analysis and knowledge processing • more suited to problems in our discipline (until law of large numbers takes over)?
Future Work • Analyze larger systems (tool limitation) • Compare more systems with similar structure • Automate the concept lattice generation • Analyze some of the deeper lattice properties • what do they tell us about the system structure • Compare concept analysis to other methods • Can knowledge extraction be automated?
Related Work • Assessing Modular Structure of Legacy Code (Christian Lindig and Gregor Snelting) • tried to find module in old systems • Software Reengineering (Gregor Snelting) • further work on modularizing legacy code • All anaylsis is done by manual inspection of generated lattice (if you can’t see it ...)
References • Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations. Bernhard Ganter and Rudolf Wille. Springer-Verlag 1999 • Software Reengineering Based on Concept Lattices. Gregor Snelting. ICSE 2000 • Assessing Modular Structure of Legacy Code Based on Mathematical Concept Analysis. Christian Linding and Gregor Snelting. ICSE 1997