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Flexible Query Answering Systems

8th International Conference, FQAS 2009, Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28, 2009, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Troels Andreasen

    1. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

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  2. Ronald R. Yager

    1. Iona College, Machine Intelligence Institute, New Rochelle, USA

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  3. Henrik Bulskov

    1. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

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  4. Henning Christiansen

    1. Computer Science Dept., Research group PLIS: Programming, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

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  5. Henrik Legind Larsen

    1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5822)

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

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Table of contents (57 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Database Management

    1. A Flexible Querying Approach Based on Outranking and Classification

      • Patrick Bosc, Olivier Pivert, Gregory Smits
      Pages 1-12

    2. Ranking Approximate Query Rewritings Based on Views

      • Hélène Jaudoin, Pierre Colomb, Olivier Pivert
      Pages 13-24

    3. A Model for Contextual Cooperative Query Answering in E-Commerce Applications

      • Kazi Zakia Sultana, Anupam Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Shafkat Amin, Hasan Jamil
      Pages 25-36

    4. Reasoning on Incompleteness of Spatial Information for Effectively and Efficiently Answering Range Queries over Incomplete Spatial Databases

      • Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Andrea Nucita
      Pages 37-52

    5. Abstracting Query Building for Multi-entity Faceted Browsing

      • Fredrik Palm
      Pages 53-63

    6. On Fuzzy vs. Metric Similarity Search in Complex Databases

      • Alan Eckhardt, Tomáš Skopal, Peter Vojtáš
      Pages 64-75

    7. Querying Context-Aware Databases

      • Davide Martinenghi, Riccardo Torlone
      Pages 76-87

  3. Information Retrieval

    1. An Exploratory Study on Using Social Information Networks for Flexible Literature Access

      • Lynda Tamine, Amjed Ben Jabeur, Wahiba Bahsoun
      Pages 88-98

    2. Dynamically Personalizing Search Results for Mobile Users

      • Ourdia Bouidghaghen, Lynda Tamine-Lechani, Mohand Boughanem
      Pages 99-110

    3. On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query –An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion–

      • Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Daniel Ortíz-Arroyo
      Pages 111-121

    4. Sociomapping in Text Retrieval Systems

      • Petr Jenček, Peter Vojtáš, Michal Kopecký, Cyril Hösch
      Pages 122-133

    5. Query Reformulation Based on Relevance Feedback

      • Imen Taktak, Mohamed Tmar, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou
      Pages 134-144

    6. Multi-objective Query Optimization Using Topic Ontologies

      • Rocío L. Cecchini, Carlos M. Lorenzetti, Ana G. Maguitman
      Pages 145-156

    7. Effectiveness of Aggregation Methods in Blog Distillation

      • Mostafa Keikha, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 157-167

    8. Structural Relevance Feedback in XML Retrieval

      • Inès Kamoun Fourati, Mohamed Tmar, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou
      Pages 168-178

    9. Query Disambiguation Based on Novelty and Similarity User’s Feedback

      • G. Bordogna, A. Campi, G. Psaila, S. Ronchi
      Pages 179-190

    10. Extraction of 3D Feature Descriptor Using the Distribution of Normal Vectors

      • Ami Kim, Oubong Gwun, Juwhan Song
      Pages 191-200

    11. Re-ranking Documents Based on Query-Independent Document Specificity

      • Lei Zheng, Ingemar J. Cox
      Pages 201-214

    12. Browsing Recommendation Based on the Intertemporal Choice Model

      • Azreen Azman, Iadh Ounis
      Pages 215-226
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2009, held in Roskilde, Denmark, in October 2009. The 57 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They are structured in topical sections on database management, information retrieval, extraction and mining, ontologies and semantic web, intelligent information extraction from texts, advances in fuzzy querying, personalization, preferences, context and recommendation, and Web as a stream.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen, Henrik Bulskov

  • Iona College, Machine Intelligence Institute, New Rochelle, USA

    Ronald R. Yager

  • Computer Science Dept., Research group PLIS: Programming, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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