Flexible query answering using distance-based fuzzy relations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4342 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 207-228

  Bodenhofer, Ulrich ^a   Küng, Josef ^a   Saminger, Susanne ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; DISTANCE-BASED; FLEXIBLE QUERIES; FLEXIBLE QUERY ANSWERING SYSTEMS; FUZZY EQUIVALENCE RELATION; FUZZY ORDERING; FUZZY RELATIONS; VAGUE QUERIES;

QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84867768091     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11964810_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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