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Fuzzy Domains with Adaptable Semantics in an Object-Relational DBMS

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2011)

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In this paper, we focus on the management of the user’s context in the field of Fuzzy Database applications. Concretely, we propose an approach that uses fuzzy techniques to represent vague concepts with an adaptable semantics in order to meet user’s preferences. We enhance previous work on the design and implementation of fuzzy databases, allowing a flexible use of different sets of linguistic labels for the same domain, which are transparently chosen according to user’s context. This way, applications that operate on fuzzy databases get an additional piece of semantic power that makes an automatic customization in relation to user’s preferences possible. This initial capability is proposed within a general architecture that aims at the management of the user context from a more general and interdisciplinary point of view. We complete our contribution with the description of a first proof of concept implementation of our proposal using the Oracle Object-Relational DBMS.

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  1. Department of Computation and I.T., Simón Bolívar University, 1080A, Caracas, Venezuela

    José Tomás Cadenas

  2. CAMYTD, FACYT, Carabobo University, Valencia, Venezuela

    José Tomás Cadenas

  3. Intelligent Databases and Information Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science and A.I., University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Nicolás Marín & M. Amparo Vila

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  1. Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Guy De Tré

  3. Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University (METU), 06531, Ankara, Türkiye

    Adnan Yazici

  4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Slawomir Zadrozny

  5. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Building 42.1, P.O Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  6. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Niels Bohrs Vey 8, H321, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Cadenas, J.T., Marín, N., Vila, M.A. (2011). Fuzzy Domains with Adaptable Semantics in an Object-Relational DBMS. In: Christiansen, H., De Tré, G., Yazici, A., Zadrozny, S., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24764-4_43

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