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A Model for Contextual Cooperative Query Answering in E-Commerce Applications

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2009)

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In computer based internet services, queries are usually submitted in a context. Either the contexts are created, or are assumed - e.g., a purchase order, or an airline reservation. Unfortunately, there is little theoretical foundation for contexts, and systems usually do not use them formally. In this paper, we propose a model for context representation in the direction of aspect oriented programming and object-oriented systems, and show that contexts can be used to process queries better. We outline a brief model that we are pursuing based on the idea of constraint inheritance with exceptions in a query tree.

Research supported in part by National Science Foundation grants CNS 0521454 and IIS 0612203.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, USA

    Kazi Zakia Sultana, Anupam Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Shafkat Amin & Hasan Jamil

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen  & Henrik Bulskov  & 

  2. Iona College, Machine Intelligence Institute, 10801, New Rochelle, NY, USA

    Ronald R. Yager

  3. Computer Science Dept., Research group PLIS: Programming, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

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Sultana, K.Z., Bhattacharjee, A., Amin, M.S., Jamil, H. (2009). A Model for Contextual Cooperative Query Answering in E-Commerce Applications. In: Andreasen, T., Yager, R.R., Bulskov, H., Christiansen, H., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_3

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