The Use of Formal Concept Analysis for Characterizing the Behavior of the Residents of Bangladesh Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mateus Sobreira, Martha Dias, Luiz Zarate, Mark Song

2025

Abstract

COVID-19 reported its first case on December 31, 2019, an illness rapidly spreading, becoming a global pandemic. Due to transmission through contact with respiratory droplets from infected individuals, governments implemented various preventive measures to minimize the spread of the disease. This work utilized Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to assess the behavior of the inhabitants of Bangladesh regarding COVID-19, based on responses to a public questionnaire conducted virtually in 64 districts from April 1 to 10, 2020. A preprocessing stage was performed on the data to fit them into the format of a formal context with objects, attributes, and the relationships among them. From the resulting general formal context, it was possible to subdivide it according to the respondent gender, enabling an analysis of the behaviors of the men and women. Based on these formal contexts, association rules containing the most predominant relationships in the database were filtered using thresholds of 40% support and 80% confidence.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sobreira M., Dias M., Zarate L. and Song M. (2025). The Use of Formal Concept Analysis for Characterizing the Behavior of the Residents of Bangladesh Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-731-3, SciTePress, pages 475-482. DOI: 10.5220/0013139300003911

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf25,
author={Mateus Sobreira and Martha Dias and Luiz Zarate and Mark Song},
title={The Use of Formal Concept Analysis for Characterizing the Behavior of the Residents of Bangladesh Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2025},
pages={475-482},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013139300003911},
isbn={978-989-758-731-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - The Use of Formal Concept Analysis for Characterizing the Behavior of the Residents of Bangladesh Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic
SN - 978-989-758-731-3
AU - Sobreira M.
AU - Dias M.
AU - Zarate L.
AU - Song M.
PY - 2025
SP - 475
EP - 482
DO - 10.5220/0013139300003911
PB - SciTePress