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In this paper we present a set of tools to analyze concepts that describe and explain a set of observations. Due to the inherent vagueness of concepts, that makes hard to decide in a dichotomic base weather an observation is, or is not, a good example for a concept, we consider the concepts associated to fuzzy subsets. Then we study the adequation and coverage of a collection of fuzzy sets to describe a set of observations. In the same way, once a set of concepts has been acepted to describe a set of objects, we study how the concepts are related by means of the observations, and reciprocally, how the objects are related by the concepts. Finally, a short description of the computer program COCOA is given.
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Aguilar-Martin, J., Martín, M., Piera, N. (1991). Conceptual conectivity analysis by means of fuzzy partitions. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R., Zadeh, L.A. (eds) Uncertainty in Knowledge Bases. IPMU 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028100
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