Current research projects
- Applying advanced formal concept analysis techniques to software
re-engineering and atat mining (funded by the FQRNT)
- A methodology for manipulation of large-size Galois lattices
(funded by the NSERC)
- Algorithms
for constructing and maintaining Galois lattices (funded by the University of Montreal)
- Parallel architectures for the extraction of lattices and rules
from large datasets (equipment funded by the CFI)
- Relational concept analysis (2 Ph.D. students)
- Ontology engineering, from alignment to merge of ontologies (1
M.Sc. student)
- Association rule mining for text mining and retrieval (1 M.Sc.
student)
Collaborative projects
- Formal concept analysis: théory and applications (5-member
team from 4 Universities UQAM, Laval, UQO, Montreal, funded by the FQRNT)
- Divide-and-conquer computation of concepts and implication bases
(collaboration with CNRS, France)
- Association rule mining for query expansion in text retrieval
(intra-DIRO collaboration)
- Development of GALICIA, an open source platform
for constructing and visualizing lattices, substructures and rules (a
France-Canada collaborative project, 7 research teams)
- Extracting relational concepts from UML class diagrams, an
application to model reuse (collaboration with LIRMM, Montpellier,
France)
- Integration of UML logical models through Galois lattices
assembly (intra-DIRO collaboration)
- Galois lattices as normal forms for OO class hierarchies
(collaboration with UQAM)
- Efficient mining of frequent closed patterns from databases
through minimal generator computation (collaboration with UQAM and UQO)
- Galois lattices for image mining and retrieval (collaboration
with UQO)
- Ontology alignment (collaboration with INRIA, France)
Software tools
Graduate students
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