Abstract:TOSCANA is a software for the visualization of data with nested line diagrams. It is a tool for navigating in databases and for the retrieval of objects in a database. It enables the user to discover relationships and implications between attributes.TOSCANA is based on Formal Concept Analysis as introduced in [Wi82]. This method formalizes a relation I between a set G of objects and a set M of attributes by the formal context (G, M, I). A formal context can be handled as a table or a view of a relational datab… Show more
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