Instructions for authors

• For all papers, a one page abstract in PostScript or PDF format should be received by Sept. 15, 2005. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.
• You can help the editors by following the file naming suggestions.
• The electronic submission of the full paper in Postscript or PDF format must be received on or before Sept. 18, 2005.
• Submit your abstract and your paper using the electronic submission system. In case you have problems with electronic submission system, please contact the Chairs as early as possible (concept@math.tu-dresden.de).

• Papers are limited to 16 pages in Springer's format. Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag.
• Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
• We strongly recommend the use of LATEX. Using other text formatting systems, such as MS Word, may result in technical problems, and it will be the author's task to solve these in accordance with Springer's requirements.

The scientific community interested in the ICFCA conferences has many facets, and this is one of its strengths. But although we appreciate heterogeneity as a source of ideas, we should at the same time be as communicative as possible. We therefore recommend the following guidelines for ICFCA publications:

• It is understood that the basic definitions of the field are common knowledge and should not be repeated in the presentations or the papers. The Conference proceedings will contain some tutorial material.
• Authors should not introduce new notions unless there are good reasons. In particular, they should not invent new names or symbols for well known notions.
• Both ``Concept Lattices'' and ``Galois Lattices'' are welcome, but the two languages should not be mixed. E.g., one should not speak of ``the Galois lattice of a formal context'', but rather of the ``Concept lattice of a formal context'' or the ``Galois lattice of a binary relation'', etc.
• We recommend that those who prefer the term ``Galois Lattice'' use the notions of the book by Barbut and Monjardet Ordre et Classification, Algèbre et Combinatoire. Those who work with ``Concept Lattices'' should use the notions of Ganter/Wille Formal Concept Analysis.
• Definitions and results which are contained in these books should not extensively be repeated, but be cited. This also holds for results and definitions from earlier ICFCA contributions.

Bernhard Ganter
General Chair