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  title info:
    title: Flexible Databases Supporting Imprecision and Uncertainty
  name:
    name part: Bordogna, Gloria.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Psaila, Giuseppe.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 346 p. online resource.
  abstract: This volume collects selected contributions on the application of heterogeneous methods for managing uncertainty and imprecision in databases. It contains both survey chapters on classic topics such as "flexible querying in databases", and up to date ontributions on "database models to represent imperfect data". Further, it includes specific contributions on uncertainty management in database integration, and in representing and querying semistructured and spatial data. These topics are of particular relevance nowadays with the diffusion of the internet since, most of the time, applications require information spread across several information sources and their integration may result in inconsistent information. Semistructured information querying often calls for the application of approximate matching techniques, and spatial information is often incomplete and imprecise. Reading this volume can serve as a guide to students for having a panoramic view of the methods to manage uncertainty and imprecision in databases proposed so far, to researchers to focus on the most up to date research trends, and to practitioners for having examples in which current databases incorporate flexible functionalities for the management of uncertainty and imprecision.
  table of contents: Database Models and Query Languages -- Flexible Query Languages for Relational Databases: An Overview -- Vacuity-Oriented Generalized Yes/No Queries Addressed to Possibilistic Databases -- On the Applicability of Extended Possibilistic Truth Values in Flexible Database Modelling and Querying -- Preference based Quality Assessment and Presentation of Query Results -- Modeling Fuzzy Information in the EER and Nested Relational Database Models -- Database Integration -- Querying Contradictory Databases by Taking into Account Their Reliability and Their Number -- Database Integrations in Distributed Enterprise Information Systems: A Database Model with Imprecise Information and Query Processing -- Integrating Data Doubtfully -- Semistructured Data Management -- An Overview of Imperfection Representation in Semistructured Data -- A Synopsis based Approach for XML Fast Approximate Querying -- Spatial Databases -- Maximum Entropy Inference for Geographical Information Systems -- Storage and Manipulation of Vague Spatial Objects Using Existing GIS Functionality -- Spatial SQL with Customizable Soft Selection Conditions.
  note: edited by Gloria Bordogna, Giuseppe Psaila.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Database management
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computational intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: Database Management
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computational Intelligence
  classification: TA329-348
  classification: TA640-643
  classification: 519
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 203
  identifier: 9783540332893
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33289-8
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204144841.0
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