Fuzzy Preference Queries To Relational Databases by Olivier P... - 9781848168695

Fuzzy Preference Queries To Relational DatabasesAuthor(s): Olivier Pivert, Patrick Bosc\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Imperial College Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Imperial College Press\nISBN-13: 9781848168695, 978-1848168695\nSynopsis\nThe manipulation of databases is an integral part of a world which is becoming increasingly and pervasively information-focused. This book puts forward a suggestion to advocate preference queries and fuzzy sets as a central concern in database queries and offers an important contribution to the design of intelligent information systems. It provides a comprehensive study on fuzzy preference queries in the context of relational databases. Preference queries, a recent hot topic in database research, provide a basis for rank-ordering the items retrieved, which is especially valuable for large sets of [url] book aims to show that fuzzy set theory constitutes a highly expressive framework for modeling preference queries. It presents a study of the algor.