Concept Lattices of Subcontexts of a Context

As an effective tool for data analysis and knowledge processing, the theory of concept lattices has been studied extensively and applied to various fields. In order to discover useful knowledge, one often ignores some attributes according to a particular purpose and merely considers the subcontexts of a rather complex context. In this paper, we make a deep investigation on the theory of concept lattices of subcontexts. An approach to construct the concept lattice of a context is first presented by means of the concept lattices of its subcontexts. Then the concept lattices induced by all subcontexts of the context are considered as a set, and an order relation is introduced into the set. It is proved that the set together with the order relation is a complete lattice. Finally, the top element and the bottom element of the complete lattice are also obtained.