A Fuzzy Concept Similarity Measure Based on Lattice Structures

Abstract:

With the rapid development of the semantic web, determining the degree of similarity between concepts from same or different ontologies plays an increasing crucial role. In this paper, a new similarity model based on lattice structural information is proposed to evaluate the similarity degree between fuzzy concepts in the framework of fuzzy formal concept analysis. The proposed method preserves more structural information, which can be viewed as another extension and development of de Souza and Davis’s model in fuzzy context.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 50-51)
• Pages: 78-82
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.50-51.78
• Online since: February 2011
• Authors: Li Dong Wang, Dian Xuan Gong, Xin Wang
• Keywords: Concept Similarity, Fuzzy Concept Lattice, Irreducible Element, Ontology

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