Flexible Query Answering Systems

Description:

<Em>Flexible Query Answering Systems</em> is an edited collection of contributed chapters. It focuses on developing computer systems capable of transforming a query into an answer with useful information. The emphasis is on problems associated with high-level intelligent answering systems. <br/> The coverage is multidisciplinary with chapters by authors from information science, logic, fuzzy systems, databases, artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. Each contribution represents a theory involving flexibility in query-answering, and each addresses specific answering problems. Coverage includes topics such as fuzzy sets in flexible querying, non-standard database interactions, metareasoning and agents, and many others. <br/> Contributions for this volume were written by leading researchers from their respective subject areas, including Patrick Bosc, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Amihai Motro, Henri Prade and Ron Yager, among others. <br/> <em>Flexible Query Answering Systems</em> is a timely contribution for researchers working on high-level query mechanism systems.

subjects: Question-answering systems,  Data processing service centers,  Database searching,  Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet),  Database management,  Information retrieval,  Information organization,  Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics),  Computer science,  Translators (Computer programs),  Data mining,  Information storage and retrieval systems,  Artificial intelligence,  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,  Language Translation and Linguistics