Best Student Paper Award in area of Databases and Information Systems Integration for the paper entitled: Formal Concept Analysis applied to Professional Social Networks Analysis, 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). http://www.iceis.org/PreviousAwards.aspx?y=2018
Abstract: From the recent proliferation of online social networks, a set of specific type of social network is attracting more and more interest from people all around the world. It is professional social networks, where the users’ interest is oriented to business. The behavior analysis of this type of user can generate knowledge about competences that people have been developed in their professional career. In this scenario, and considering the available amount of information in professional social networks, it has been fundamental the adoption of effective computational methods to analyze these networks. The formal concept analysis (FCA) has been a effective technique to social network analysis (SNA), because it allows identify conceptual structures in data sets, through conceptual lattice and implication rules. Particularly, a specific set of implications rules, know as proper implications, can represent the minimum set of conditions to reach a specific goal. In this work, we proposed a FCA-based approach to identify relations among professional competences through proper implications. The experimental results, with professional profiles from LinkedIn and proper implications extracted from PropIm algorithm, shows the minimum sets of skills that is necessary to reach job positions.
Silva, P., Dias, S., Brandão, W., Song, M. and Zárate, L. Formal Concept Analysis Applied to Professional Social Networks Analysis. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017) – Volume 1, pages 123-134. ISBN: 978-989-758-247-9 Copyright © 2017 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.
Seminário: Aplicação de Ciência de Dados e Big Data nas Empresas
Título da apresentação: Big Data Analytics em Governo
Apresentação realizada na PUC Minas em 29/04/2017
Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory of data analysis with applications in many areas. The problem of obtaining a concept lattice of an appropriate size was identified in several applications as one of the most important problems of FCA. In order to deal with this problem several techniques with different characteristics were proposed for concept lattice reduction. However, there are currently no adequate methods to assess what types of knowledge transformations can result from a reduction. A methodology for analysis of concept lattice reduction is presented here. It is based on the use of sets of proper implications holding in the original and reduced formal contexts or concept lattices. Working with both sets of implications, the methodology is able to show what is preserved, eliminated, inserted or transformed by a reduction technique. Three classes of reduction techniques are analyzed from the standpoint of the methodology in order to highlight techniques of each class have in common with respect to the transformations performed. Such analysis is followed by specific examples in each class.
Dias, Sérgio M.; Vieira, N. J. A methodology for analysis of concept lattice reduction, Information Sciences, Volume 396, August 2017, Pages 202-217, ISSN 0020-0255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2017.02.037.
Formal concept analysis (FCA) is currently considered an important formalism for knowledge representation, extraction and analysis with applications in different areas. A problem identified in several applications is the computational cost due to the large number of formal concepts generated. Even when that number is not very large, the essential aspects, those effectively needed, can be immersed in a maze of irrelevant details. In fact, the problem of obtaining a concept lattice of appropriate complexity and size is one of the most important problems of FCA. In literature, several different approaches to control the complexity and size of a concept lattice have been described, but so far they have not been properly analyzed, compared and classified. We propose the classification of techniques for concept lattice reduction in three groups: redundant information removal, simplification, and selection. The main techniques to reduce concept lattice are analyzed and classified based on seven dimensions, each one composed of a set of characteristics. Considerations are made about the applicability and computational complexity of approaches of different classes.
Dias, Sérgio M.; Vieira, N. J. Concept lattices reduction: Definition, analysis and classification. Expert Systems with Applications, v. 42, p. 7084-7097, 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.04.044
TemaTec 233 – Marcelo Pita, Gustavo Torres e Sérgio Dias
Os sistemas transacionais geram um volume gigantesco de dados e em meio a essa massa de dados, existem informações que passam despercebidas. É necessário explorar esses dados usando o processo Knowledge Discovery in Databases (descoberta de conhecimento em base de dados) para descobrir estas informações, que em muitos casos são de extrema relevância ao negócio e alavancam em muitos casos ações que geram um diferencial para o negócio. Com este objetivo podem ser aplicadas soluções de Big Data, Data Discovery e Data Mining, que possibilitam encontrar padrões ou tendências em grandes massas de dados. Sejam suas fontes sistemas transacionais, redes sociais, e-mails, sites, listas de discussão entre outras.
Prof. Dr. Sérgio M. Dias 