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Improving the User-System Interaction in a Web Multi-agent System Using Fuzzy Multi-granular Linguistic Information

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2006)

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Nowadays, information gathering in Internet is a complex activity and Internet users need systems to assist them to obtain the information required. In an earlier studies [5, 6, 16] we presented different fuzzy linguistic multi-agent models for helping users in their information gathering processes on the Web. In this paper, we present a new fuzzy linguistic multi-agent model to access information on the Web that incorporates the use of fuzzy multi-granular linguistic modeling to improve its user-system interaction and be more user-friendly.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain

    E. Herrera-Viedma, S. Alonso & A. Zafra

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cordoba, Spain

    C. Porcel

  3. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Jaen, Spain

    A. G. Lopez-Herrera

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  1. The European Center for Counterterrorism Research and Studies Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  2. DISCO, University Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Gabriella Pasi

  3. Computer Science Department, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo

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    Henning Christiansen

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Herrera-Viedma, E., Porcel, C., Lopez-Herrera, A.G., Alonso, S., Zafra, A. (2006). Improving the User-System Interaction in a Web Multi-agent System Using Fuzzy Multi-granular Linguistic Information. In: Larsen, H.L., Pasi, G., Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766254_33

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