Preface


The 13th International Conference on “Concept Lattices and Applications (CLA
2016)” was held at National Research University Higher School of Economics,
Moscow, Russia from July 18 until July 22, 2016. The CLA conference, organized
since 2002, aims to provide to everyone interested in Formal Concept Analysis
and more generally in Concept Lattices or Galois Lattices, an advanced view
on some of the last research trends and applications in this field. It also aims
to bring together students, professors, researchers and engineers, involved in all
aspects of the study of concept lattices, from theory to implementations and
practical applications. As the diversity of the selected papers shows, there is a
wide range of research directions, around data and knowledge processing, in-
cluding data mining, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation, reasoning,
pattern recognition, together with logic, algebra and lattice theory.
The program of the conference includes four keynote talks given by the fol-
lowing distinguished researchers: Lev D. Beklemishev (Mathematical Institute
of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow), Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble
Rhône-Alpes), Bernhard Ganter (TU-Dresden), Boris G. Mirkin (National Re-
search University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). This volume includes
the selected papers and the abstracts of the invited talks. This year, 46 papers
were submitted, from which 28 papers were accepted as regular papers. We would
like to thank here the contributing authors for their valuable work, the members
of the program committee and the external reviewers who analyzed the papers
with care. All of them participated to the continuing quality and importance of
CLA, highlighting its key role in the field.
Then we would also like to thank the steering committee of CLA for giving us
the occasion of leading this edition of CLA, the conference participants for their
participation and support, and people in charge of the organization, especially
Larisa I. Antropova, Ekaterina L. Chernyak, Dmitry I. Ignatov, Olga V. Maksi-
menkova, whose help was very precious in many occasions and that contributed
to the success of the event. We would like to thank our sponsors, namely National
Research University Higher School of Economics, ExactPro company, Russian
Foundation for Basic Research. Finally, we also do not forget that the conference
was managed (quite easily) with the Easychair system, for many tasks including
paper submission, selection, and reviewing.


July 2016                                                    Marianne Huchard
                                                            Sergei O. Kuznetsov

                                                   Program Chairs of CLA 2016