AIMS AND SCOPE

CLA is an international conference dedicated to formal concept analysis (FCA) and areas closely 
related to FCA such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, data and 
knowledge engineering, logic, algebra and lattice theory. CLA provides a forum for researchers, 
practitioners, and students. The program of CLA consists of invited plenary talks, regular talks, 
and poster sessions. We solicit papers in all areas relevant to the theory and applications of FCA.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Concept Lattices and related structures
* Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
* Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Engineering
* Association Rules, Itemsets and Data Dependencies
* Attribute Implications
* Algorithms for Concept Lattices and Complexity
* Visualization
* Data Preprocessing
* Redundancy and Dimensionality Reduction
* Information Retrieval
* Classification and Clustering
* Pattern Recognition
* Applications of Concept Lattices

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Papers of up to twelve pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript formats. For each paper, an 
abstract must be submitted by June 22, 2012.
The submission is done via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla2012

Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the Springer LNCS style, see 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality, relevance to areas of interest,
and presentation clarity. Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, 
is not under review elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere during the CLA 2012 review 
period.

Accepted papers will be published in the CLA proceedings (with ISBN). There are also plans for
organizing CLA 2012 post-proceedings as a special issue of a well-established journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: June 22, 2012
Paper submission: June 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 27, 2012 
Camera-ready papers due: September 16, 2012
Conference: October 11-14, 2012

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Uta Priss (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany) Laszlo Szathmary 
(University of Debrecen, Hungary)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jaume Baixeries
Radim Belohlavek
Sadok Ben Yahia
Karell Bertet
François Brucker
Claudio Carpineto
Pablo Cordero
Felix Distel
Florent Domenach
Mireille Ducasse
Ramon Fuentes-Gonzalez
Cynthia Vera Glodeanu
Marianne Huchard
Vassilis Kaburlasos
Mehdi Kaytoue
Stanislav Krajci
Marzena Kryszkiewicz
Sergei Kuznetsov
Jesús Medina-Moreno
Rokia Missaoui
Amedeo Napoli
Lhouari Nourine
Sergei Obiedkov
Jan Outrata
Pascal Poncelet
Camille Roth
Baris Sertkaya
Henry Soldano
Gerd Stumme
Petko Valtchev

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pablo Cordero (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) Inma P Cabrera (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

STEERING COMMITTEE

Radim Belohlavek (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic) Sadok Ben Yahia (Faculté des 
Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia) Jean Diatta (Université de la Réunion, France) Peter Eklund 
(University of Wollongong, Australia) Sergei O. Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of 
Economics, Moscow, Russia) Michel Liquière (LIRMM, Montpellier, France) Engelbert Mephu Nguifo 
(LIMOS, Clermont-Ferrand, France)