This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Formal Concept
Analysis ICFCA 2017 held in Rennes France in June 2017. The 13 full papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The book also contains an
invited contribution and a historical paper translated from German and originally published in
Die Klassifkation und ihr Umfeld edited by P. O. Degens H. J. Hermes and O. Opitz
Indeks-Verlag Frankfurt 1986. The field of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) originated in the
1980s in Darmstadt as a subfield of mathematical order theory with prior developments in other
research groups. Its original motivation was to consider complete lattices as lattices of
concepts drawing motivation from philosophy and mathematics alike. FCA has since then
developed into a wide research area with applications much beyond its original motivation for
example in logic data mining learning and psychology.
