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Internet as a Challenge to Fuzzy Querying

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Intelligent Exploration of the Web

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 111))

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We advocate the use of fuzzy querying in particular in the Internet — related environment in which, on the one hand, most of the users are not computer specialists and hence simple tools and natural language interfaces and elements are to be employed in the formulation of (imprecisely specified) database queries. On the other hand, fuzzy querying should be used in widely distributed data sources (databases) available through the Internet. We show how elements of fuzzy logic, notably fuzzy terms, linguistic quantifiers and modifiers, can be employed to attain human consistent and useful solutions. Specifically, we present an approach to fuzzy querying implemented as our FQUERY for Access system, and then extended to make fuzzy querying possible via a WWW browser.

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    Janusz Kacprzyk & Sławomir Zadrożny

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Lodz, ul. Sterlinga 16/18, 90-217, Lodz, Poland

    Piotr S. Szczepaniak

  2. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Piotr S. Szczepaniak  & Janusz Kacprzyk  & 

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660, Madrid, Spain

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  4. Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, 94720-1776, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Kacprzyk, J., Zadrożny, S. (2003). Internet as a Challenge to Fuzzy Querying. In: Szczepaniak, P.S., Segovia, J., Kacprzyk, J., Zadeh, L.A. (eds) Intelligent Exploration of the Web. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 111. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1772-0_5

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