The most accessible interfaces querying relational database should allow vague terms included in selection criteria. The gradual property stands for the simplest vague selection criterion, but more categories of vague ...

Building a more accurate reality model requires taking into account imperfect information present in our knowledge and language. This paper presents several aspects of data imperfection in the database context and the ...

The most accessible interfaces querying databases must be so intelligent, able to understand natural language expressions and including vague terms in selection criteria. The paper proposes a general architecture for a ...

The most accessible interfaces querying databases must be so intelligent, able to understand natural language expressions and including vague terms in selection criteria. The paper proposes a general architecture for a ...

Fuzzy selection criteria querying relational databases include vague terms; they usually refer linguistic values form the attribute linguistic domains, defined as fuzzy sets. Generally, when a vague query is processed, the ...

In order to evaluate vague queries, each linguistic term is considered according to its fuzzy model. Usually, the linguistic terms are defined as fuzzy sets, during a classical knowledge acquisition off-line process. But ...

In order to evaluate vague queries, each linguistic term is considered according to its fuzzy model. Usually, the linguistic terms are defined as fuzzy sets, during a classical knowledge acquisition off-line process. But ...