The Twelfth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications will be held in: Clermont-Ferrand, France October 13–16, 2015 CLA 2015 will be jointly organized by the LIMOS laboratory, CNRS and Blaise Pascal University, France **** Abstract submission deadline: June 7, 2015 **** **** Paper submission deadline: June 14, 2015 **** http://cla2015.isima.fr Scope and Areas 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. Papers in all areas relevant to theory and applications of FCA are solicited. Those areas include but are not restricted to: * foundations, * concept lattices and related structures, * attribute implications and data dependencies, * algorithms, * visualization, * data preprocessing, * redundancy and dimensionality reduction, * information retrieval, * classification, * clustering, * association rules and other data dependencies, * ontologies, * applications. Important Dates Abstract submission: June 7, 2015 Paper submission: June 14, 2015 Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 16, 2015 Camera-ready papers due: September 6, 2015 Conference: October 13-16, 2015 Paper Submission and Publication Papers of up to 12 pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript format. Papers need to be formatted using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission is to be done via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla2015. All 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 CLA 2015's review period. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings (with ISBN), available at the conference (printed) and at CEUR Workshop Proceedings and CLA Homepage (online). Selected papers accepted to CLA 2015 will be invited to further revise and extend their work in a special issue of a well-established journal (name will come). Information for Participants If you consider your participation, take a look at http://cla2015.isima.fr for the latest news. * Conference fee 250 EUR. * Student fee 200 EUR (in limited number, an attestation of full-time study is required). Confirmed Keynote Speakers Didier Dubois IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Fionn Murtagh School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Gabriella Pasi Department of Informatics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy Jan Ramon Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Takeaki Uno Institute of Informatics (NII) of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Program Chairs Sadok Ben Yahia University Tunis El-Manar, Tunis, Tunisia Jan Konecny Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Program Committee (to be confirmed) Simon Andrews Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom Jaume Baixeries Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia Radim Belohlavek Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic Karell Bertet L3i – Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France François Brucker Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France Ana Burusco Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain Claudio Carpineto Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy Pablo Cordero Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain Jean Diatta Iremia – Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, France Felix Distel Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Vincent Duquenne Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France Peter Eklund University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia Sébastien Ferré IRISA – Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France Bernhard Ganter Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Cynthia Vera Glodeanu Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Alain Gély Université de Lorraine, Metz, France Tarek Hamrouni LIPAH – Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia Marianne Huchard LIRMM – Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France Dmitry Ignatov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Mehdi Kaytoue Liris – Insa, Lyon, France Stanislav Krajči Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia Francesco Kriegel Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Michal Krupka Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic Marzena Kryszkiewicz Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Sergei O. Kuznetsov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Léonard Kwuida Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland Jesús Medina Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain Engelbert Mephu Nguifo Limos, Clermont-Ferrand, France Rokia Missaoui LARIM – Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada Amedeo Napoli Inria – Loria, Nancy, France Lhouari Nourine Limos, Clermont-Ferrand, France Sergei Obiedkov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Manuel Ojeda-Aciego Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain Petr Osička Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic Jan Outrata Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic Uta Priss Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Francois Rioult GREYC – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France Sebastian Rudolph Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Christian Sacarea Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Barış Sertkaya SAP Research Center, Dresden, Germany László Szathmáry LATECE – Université du Quebec, Montréal, Canada Petko Valtchev Université du Quebec, Montréal, Canada Francisco José Valverde-Albacete : Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Organization Committee Chair Olivier Raynaud Limos, Clermont-Ferrand, France Steering Committee Radim Belohlavek Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic Sadok Ben Yahia Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia Jean Diatta Iremia – Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, France Peter Eklund University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia Sergei O. Kuznetsov Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Engelbert Mephu Nguifo Limos, Clermont-Ferrand, France Amedeo Napoli Inria – Loria, Nancy, France Manuel Ojeda-Aciego Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain Jan Outrata Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, Czech Republic CLA 2015 Webpage http://cla2015.isima.fr CLA Homepage http://cla.inf.upol.cz