Recent Issues on Fuzzy Databases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bordogna, Gloria (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pasi, Gabriella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 53
• Subjects: Database management.; Artificial intelligence.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Earth sciences.; Database Management.; Artificial Intelligence.; IT in Business.; Earth Sciences, general.

This book focuses on the recent research issues regarding the application of fuzzy set theory to extend the functionalities of database management systems. During the past five years, the research in this field has moved from a merely theoretical framework mainly addressing the definition of fuzzy e...

Table of Contents:

• I. Fuzzy Querying of Databases
• Value-Based and Representation-Based Querying of Possibilistic Databases
• Flexible Division Operators in Possibility-based Fuzzy Relational Databases
• II. Data Mining Based on Fuzzy Sets
• Fuzzy Data Mining: Discovery of Fuzzy Generalized Association Rules
• On Combining Intelligent Querying and Data Mining Using Fuzzy Logic Concepts
• III. Geographic Information Systems Dealing with Uncertainty
• Uncertainty in Distributed and Interoperable Spatial Information Systems
• On Fuzzy Sets and the Management of Uncertainty in an Intelligent Geographic Information System
• Conceptual Modeling of Geographic Information System Applications
• IV. Fuzzy Database Models: Definition and Implementation
• A Generalised Object-Oriented Database Model
• An Implementation for Fuzzy Deductive Relational Databases
• The Fuzzy Object-Oriented Database Management System.