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Flexible Query Answering Systems

13th International Conference, FQAS 2019, Amantea, Italy, July 2–5, 2019, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11529)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): FQAS: International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems

Conference proceedings info: FQAS 2019.

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Invited Talks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Logic, Machine Learning, and Security

      • V. S. Subrahmanian
      Pages 3-6
    3. Personal Big Data, GDPR and Anonymization

      • Josep Domingo-Ferrer
      Pages 7-10
  3. Tutorials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Tutorial: Supervised Learning for Prevalence Estimation

      • Alejandro Moreo, Fabrizio Sebastiani
      Pages 13-17
  4. Flexible Database Management and Querying

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
    2. Indexing for Skyline Computation

      • Markus Endres, Erich Glaser
      Pages 31-42
    3. A Simple Data Structure for Optimal Two-Sided 2D Orthogonal Range Queries

      • Alejandro Grez, Andrea Calí, Martín Ugarte
      Pages 43-47
    4. Optimizing the Computation of Approximate Certain Query Answers over Incomplete Databases

      • Nicola Fiorentino, Cristian Molinaro, Irina Trubitsyna
      Pages 48-60
  5. Ontologies and Knowledge Bases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
    2. Leveraging Ontology to Enable Indoor Comfort Customization in the Smart Home

      • Daniele Spoladore, Atieh Mahroo, Marco Sacco
      Pages 63-74
    3. Efficient Ontological Query Answering by Rewriting into Graph Queries

      • Mirko Michele Dimartino, Andrea Calì, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter T. Wood
      Pages 75-84
    4. WeLink: A Named Entity Disambiguation Approach for a QAS over Knowledge Bases

      • Wissem Bouarroudj, Zizette Boufaida, Ladjel Bellatreche
      Pages 85-97
  6. Argumentation-Based Query Answering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. A Heuristic Pruning Technique for Dialectical Trees on Argumentation-Based Query-Answering Systems

      • Andrea Cohen, Sebastian Gottifredi, Alejandro J. García
      Pages 101-113
    3. A Method for Efficient Argument-Based Inquiry

      • Bas Testerink, Daphne Odekerken, Floris Bex
      Pages 114-125

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2019, held in Amantea, Italy, in July 2019.

The 27 full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers present emerging research trends with a special focus on flexible querying and analytics for smart cities and smart societies in the age of big data. They are organized in the following topical sections: flexible database management and querying; ontologies and knowledge bases; social networks and social media; argumentation-based query answering; data mining and knowledge discovery; advanced flexible query answering methodologies and techniques; flexible query answering methods and techniques; flexible intelligent information-oriented and network-oriented approaches; big data veracity and soft computing; flexibility in tools; and systems and miscellanea.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

    Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Sergio Greco, Domenico Saccà

  • Legind Technologies , Esbjerg , Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  • Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen, Henning Christiansen

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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