This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2011, held in Roskilde, Denmark, in October 2011. The 43 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logical approaches to flexible querying, fuzzy logic in spatial and temporal data modeling and querying, knowledge-based approaches, multimedia, data fuzziness, reliability and trust, information retrieval, preference queries, flexible querying of graph data, ranking, ordering and statistics, query recommendation and interpretation, as well as on fuzzy databases and applications (8 papers presented in a special session).
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Henning Christiansen
Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Guy Tré
Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye
Adnan Yazici
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
Slawomir Zadrozny
Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Troels Andreasen
Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark
Henrik Legind Larsen
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flexible Query Answering Systems
Book Subtitle: 9th International Conference, FQAS 2011, Ghent, Belgium, October 26-28, 2011, Proceedings
Editors: Henning Christiansen, Guy Tré, Adnan Yazici, Slawomir Zadrozny, Troels Andreasen, Henrik Legind Larsen