Galicia : an open platform for lattices

Formal concept analysis (FCA) has proved helpful in the resolution of practical problems from fields such software engineering, knowledge engineering and data mining. Recently, a substantial push has been done toward the design of efficient procedures for lattice construction, with a variety of novel algorithms proposed in the literature. However, the FCA community has created only few effective tools for manipulating lattices so far and what is still missing is an integrated environment for constructing, visualizing, exploring and maintaining lattices. We present the Galicia project aimed at the construction of an open platform for lattice manipulation which follows the complete life-cycle of a lattice. More than just a lattice tool, the platform provides the necessary services for quick development and test of new lattice algorithms.