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![Fig. 3. Formal Context: Living Beings and Water (taken from [3]). The...](profile/Jens-Koetters/publication/268427421/figure/fig3/AS:667716964847620@1536207538247/Formal-Context-Living-Beings-and-Water-taken-from-3-The-attributes-are-defined-as_Q320.jpg)
A context graph of a one-valued context is a graph which has formal objects as its vertices, and whose edges connect the objects in such a way that concept extents form connected subgraphs of this graph. This allows to retrieve objects similar to a given object by a recursive traversal of that objects neighborhood. The approach has been introduced...
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... A technical oriented application field of FCA is the area of production planning where the concept lattices are used to partition the products into disjoint groups during the optimisation of the production cost (Wille, 2005). Prior research applied FCA in different scientific disciplines, like psychology, sociology, economic sciences (Wille, 2005), marketing, linguistics (Priss, 2009), knowledge discovery and data mining (Valtchev et al., 2004), and information retrieval (Kötters, 2009). FCA was applied in analysis of data obtained from interviews (Ganter and Zickwolff, 1990). ...
Outsourcing and offshoring have become viable strategies of global firms. The success and necessity of usage of these strategies is stipulated by quick development in information and communication technologies. The prior research has shown that firms which use offshoring have better chances to survive than firms which rely solely on domestic suppliers and performing works in-house. The paper considers issues of cooperative ship design grounded on a strategy of flexible sourcing, when the firm rationally combines outsourcing and insourcing strategies. The mathematical method of formal concept analysis is applied to visualise and analyse firm's insourcing and outsourcing strategies. An example is presented to illustrate application of the concept lattice in decision support regarding sourcing of a Norwegian ship design firm.
... The technique has been widely applied since the 1980s with regard to a broad spectrum of applications. FCA has been utilized in several disciplines such as psychology, sociology, economic sciences (Wille, 2005), marketing, linguistics (Priss, 2009), knowledge discovery and data mining (Valtchev et al., 2004), and information retrieval (Kötters, 2009). It has also been applied to visualize and analyze data obtained from interviews concerning employee selection criteria reported by large firms (Ganter and Zickwolff, 1990). ...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to apply a mathematical method of formal concept analysis (FCA) to facilitate evaluation of potential partners, and to select the most appropriate partner for horizontal strategic alliances. Horizontal collaboration between ship design firms is important in relation to business cyclicality in the industry. The workload in ship design firms drops during the troughs of the shipbuilding cycle and increases dramatically during the peaks of the cycle.
Design/methodology/approach
The proposed method of partnership selection applies FCA, which is based on mathematical lattice theory. FCA allows firms to evaluate and select the best suitable partners for horizontal interfirm cooperation from several possible candidate firms. Utilization of FCA allows a firm to visually analyze a potential partner for a horizontal strategic alliance.
Findings
The contribution of this study to the literature is twofold. First, it contributes to the literature on the application of FCA in management field. Second, this study contributes to the partner selection literature. The contribution of the study is an alternative quantitative method for partner selection based on FCA. FCA compliments qualitative approaches in the process of alternatives evaluation and decision‐making regarding partner selection for horizontal collaboration.
Practical implications
Practitioners from ship design firms can use the FCA tool to facilitate decision‐making relating to the screening of potential partners for horizontal cooperation with regard to pre‐specified selected criteria.
Originality/value
FCA has been marginally applied to aid managerial decision making. The FCA tool is valuable for practitioners from ship design firms to manage the selection of partners for horizontal collaboration. The FCA tool is associated with numerous advantages, notably, relative simplicity and versatility of visual analysis when compared with other mathematical approaches such as the analytic hierarchy process, the analytic network process, optimization modeling, and fuzzy set logic.
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