 Introduction to formal concept analysis and its applications in reliability engineeringClaudio M. Rocco, Elvis Hernandez-Perdomo and Johnathan Mun Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2020, vol. 202, issue C Abstract: Formal Analysis of Concepts (FCA) is a method of data analysis that helps to study the relationship between a set of objects and a set of attributes (the formal context). FCA not only allows detecting data groups (concepts) and their graphical visualization, but also extracting rules that could reveal the underlying structure of the analyzed context. The main idea of this paper is to present the fundamentals of FCA and how it can be used in reliability engineering problems. To this aim, examples in reliability engineering, from both the literature and authors’ experience, have been selected for analysis. Comments on the new insights provided by FCA are also highlighted. Finally, the results from the examples selected show that other reliability areas could benefit from using an FCA-based approach. Keywords: Defense strategies; Failure analysis; Formal concept analysis; Knowledge space theory; Partial order; Reliability engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:reensy:v:202:y:2020:i:c:s0951832020305032 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2020.107002 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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