RIS ID
22004
Abstract
In this paper Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used as a means to analyse a field 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.
Publication Details
This paper was originally published as Thomas, T, and Eklund, P, Citation Analysis using Formal Concept Analysis: A case study in Software Engineering, 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2007, 3-7 Sept, 545-550.