Generic software for benchmarking formal concept analysis: Orange3 integration

Abstract

Thanks to the internet of things (IoT) and cyber physical systems (CPS), we face an incremental growth of the available data, either on the internet or in private databases. This resulted in data mining techniques becoming an essential piece in the information retrieval process. Moreover, trends like the industry 4.0 encourages its usage to support data driven decisions, for instance. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is one of the most used techniques in the unsupervised data mining field due to its inherent ability to find patterns between concepts. As a consequence, many applications need the use of fast algorithms to perform the calculations to retrieve either the lattice or the association rules related with the data at their disposal. Due to this, scientists often rely on manually crafted benchmarks to compare how certain algorithms perform under different circumstances. In this work, we propose the architecture of a software to generalize these benchmarks independently of the algorithms, to be integrated in the open source data analysis software Orange3.