Citation Analysis using Formal Concept Analysis: A case study in Software Engineering
T. Tilley, und P. Eklund. 18th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Seite 545--550. IEEE Computer Society, (September 2007)
Zusammenfassung
In this paper formal concept analysis (FCA) is used as a means to analyse afield of research using published academic papers as its input. In particular, results are presented based on a case study of 47 academic papers in a scientific field of study. The analysis includes inferences about the field of study based on the domain background knowledge derived from the ISO12207 software engineering standard. Additionally, a number of alternative classifications based on the target application language and the reported application size are introduced. FCA reveals useful insights about the nature of the subject matter: identifying fruitful areas of research as well as producing details about characteristics of the community under examination.