Flexible Query Answering Systems: 5th International Conference, Fqas 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2002 : Proceedings

by Fqas 200 (2002 Copenhagen, Denmark); Motro, Amihai; Christiansen, Henning; Larsen, Henrik Legind

• ISBN13: 9783540000747
• ISBN10: 3540000747
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2002. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the fields covered are database management, information retrieval, domain modeling, knowledge representation and ontologies, knowledge discovery and data mining, artificial intelligence, classical and nonclassical logics, computational linguistics, natural language processing, multimedia information systems, and human-computer interaction.

Table of Contents

Context - Sensitive Query Expansion Based on Fuzzy Clustering of Index Terms	p. 1
Intelligent Information Integration as a Constraint Handling Problem	p. 12
Effect Preservation as a Means for Achieving Update Consistency	p. 28
Recursive Queries in Product Databases	p. 44
A Class-Based Logic Language for Ontologies	p. 56
Consistent Answers from Integrated Data Sources	p. 71
A Knowledge-Based Query System for Biological Databases	p. 86
On Measuring Similarity for Conceptual Querying	p. 100
Representation & Querying of Temporal Conflict	p. 112
Adding Flexibility of Structure Similarity Queries on XML Data	p. 124
An Efficient Incremental Lower Bound Approach for Solving Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Problem of Complex Vague Queries	p. 140
Association Rule Extraction for Text Mining	p. 154
User Preference Information in Query Answering	p. 163
Bipolarity in Flexible Querying	p. 174
Theory of K-Calculuses as a Powerful and Flexible Mathematical Framework for Building Ontologies and Designing Natural Language Processing Systems	p. 183
X-Compass: An XML Agent for Supporting User Navigation on the Web	p. 197
A Parallel Spatial Join Processing for Distributed Spatial Databases	p. 212
Query Construction through Meaningful Suggestions of Terms	p. 226
An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data	p. 240
Spatio-Temporal Querying in Video Databases	p. 251
A Similarity-Based Unification Model for Flexible Querying	p. 263
A Formal Model for Data Fusion	p. 274
Flexible Management of Consistency and Availability of Networked Data Replications	p. 289
Querying Multidatabase Systems Using SIQL	p. 301
Extending Relational Data Access Programming Libraries for Fuzziness: The fJDBC Framework	p. 314
Approximating Terminological Queries	p. 329
Conjunctive Aggregation of Extended Possibilistic Truth Values and Flexible Database Querying	p. 344
Interactive Query Formulation in Semistructured Databases	p. 356
Paraconsistent Query Answering Systems	p. 370
Author Index	p. 385
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