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Declarative Fuzzy Linguistic Queries on Relational Databases

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In this paper we propose a declarative method to formulate fuzzy linguistic queries on Relational Database Management Systems. That is, flexible queries containing linguistic terms associate to the attributes of a table of a relational database. To this end, we adapt techniques originate from a proximity-based Logic Programming Language called Bousi~Prolog.

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  1. Dep. of Information Systems, Univ. of the Bío-Bío, Chile

    Clemente Rubio-Manzano, Esteban Salazar-Santis & Eduardo San Martín-Villarroel

  2. Dep. of Information Technologies and Systems, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

    Pascual Julián-Iranzo

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  1. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

  2. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Maria J. Martin-Bautista

  3. Department of Computer Science and Arificial IntelIigence, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    María Amparo Vila

  4. CBIT, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  5. CBIT, Roskilde University, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

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Rubio-Manzano, C., Julián-Iranzo, P., Salazar-Santis, E., San Martín-Villarroel, E. (2013). Declarative Fuzzy Linguistic Queries on Relational Databases. In: Larsen, H.L., Martin-Bautista, M.J., Vila, M.A., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40769-7_36

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