@inproceedings{812325cbc95148d09cbe62efb074d729,
title = "Fm-QCA: A novel approach to multi-value qualitative comparative analysis",
abstract = "Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a technique originally developed by Charles Ragin in the field of political science. It accepts data sets from the problem of interest, and applies the rules of logical inference to determine the relations between combinations of variables and outcomes, which helps researchers validate hypotheses or discover new implications. However, existing QCA approaches or tools have limited capacities in handling multivalued explanatory and outcome variables, as well as in outputting compact results for human analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel QCA approach, which can deal with multivalued variables and support more complicated analysis. Our approach enables 1) multi-value reduction of candidate rules; and 2) effective counterfactual analysis associated with expert knowledge.We also implemented a new tool called fully functional multi-value QCA (fm-QCA). Through the evaluation, our tool outperforms existing state-of-the-art QCA tools in producing more compact analysis results as well as discovering more inferences.",
keywords = "Case-based reasoning, Multi-value logic, QCA",
author = "Ke Wu and Shiping Tang and Geguang Pu and Min Wu and Ting Su",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.; 8th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2015 ; Conference date: 28-10-2015 Through 30-10-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-25159-2\_10",
language = "英语",
isbn = "9783319251585",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "115--127",
editor = "Zili Zhang and Songmao Zhang and Zili Zhang and Martin Wirsing and Martin Wirsing and Martin Wirsing and Zili Zhang and Songmao Zhang and Songmao Zhang",
booktitle = "Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management - 8th International Conference, KSEM 2015, Proceedings",
address = "德国",
}