Flexibility and fuzzy case-based evaluation in querying: An illustration in an experimental setting

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-66

  De Calmès, Martine ^a   Dubois, Didier ^a   Hullermeier, Eyke ^b   Prade, Henri ^a   Sedes, Florence ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case based prediction; Flexible querying; Fuzzy sets; Querying by examples

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

CASE BASED PREDICTION; CASE BASED REASONING; FLEXIBLE QUERYING; POSSIBILITY THEORY; QUERYING BY EXAMPLES;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0037325301     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488503001941     Document Type: Article

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