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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808005303321

Autore

Schockaert Steven

Titolo

Reasoning about fuzzy temporal and spatial information from the web [[electronic resource] /] / Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne Kerre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2010

ISBN

1-283-14461-1

9786613144614

981-4307-90-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

Intelligent information systems ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

CockMartine de

KerreEtienne

Disciplina

006.3

006.33

511/.3

Soggetti

Fuzzy sets

Spatial systems

Information retrieval

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries from Fuzzy Set Theory; 3. Relatedness of Fuzzy Sets; 4. Representing Fuzzy Temporal Information; 5. Reasoning about Fuzzy Temporal Information; 6. Event-based Information Retrieval; 7. Representing Fuzzy Spatial Information; 8. Reasoning about Fuzzy Spatial Information; 9. Geographic Information Retrieval; Conclusions; Appendix A Proof of Proposition 5.9; Appendix B Proof of Proposition 5.10; Appendix C Proof of Proposition 8.1; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book comprehensively studies fuzzy temporal and spatial information, starting from the basics on fuzzy set theory and temporal/spatial reasoning, the development of a new model to represent fuzzy temporal/spatial information, the study of efficient and complete reasoning algorithms, and their application in an information



retrieval context. This useful volume presents the first approach that goes beyond merely representing information, by thoroughly addressing a variety of reasoning tasks. It also focuses on applications in the domain of information retrieval, and demonstrating the practi