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Publications and source records attributed to Stephen E. Rodabaugh.
Recently, J.~T.~Denniston, A.~Melton, and S.~E.~Rodabaugh introduced a lattice-valued analogue of the concept of institution of J.~A.~Goguen and R.~M.~Burstall, comparing it, moreover, with the (lattice-valued version of the) notion of topological system of S.~Vickers. In this paper, we show that a suitable generalization of topological systems provides a convenient framework for doing certain kinds of (lattice-valued) institutions.
Motivated by the concept of Sierpinski object for topological systems of S.~Vickers, presented recently by R.~Noor and A.~K.~Srivastava, this paper introduces the Sierpinski object for many-valued topological systems and shows that it has three important properties of the crisp Sierpinski space of general topology.
Formal concept analysis (FCA) is built on a special type of Galois connections called polarities. We present new results in formal concept analysis and in Galois connections by presenting new Galois connection results and then applying these to formal concept analysis. We also approach FCA from the perspective of collections of formal contexts. Usually, when doing FCA, a formal context is fixed. We are interested in comparing formal contexts and asking what criteria should be used when determining when one formal context is better than another formal context. Interestingly, we address this issue by studying sets of polarities.