Flexible Query Answering Systems: 7th International Conference, Fqas 2006, Milan, Italy, June 7-10, 2006 (Paperback, 2006)

Flexibility in Database Management and Querying.- Project-Join-Repair: An Approach to Consistent Query Answering Under Functional Dependencies.- Algebra-Based Identification of Tree Patterns in XQuery.- Approximate Querying of XML Fuzzy Data.- Relaxation Paradigm in a Flexible Querying Context.- A Functional Model for Data Analysis.- Materialization-Based Range and k-Nearest Neighbor Query Processing Algorithms.- Flexible Querying Using Structural and Event Based Multimodal Video Data Model.- Reverse Nearest Neighbor Search in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- On Tuning OWA Operators in a Flexible Querying Interface.- Towards a Flexible Visualization Tool for Dealing with Temporal Data.- Vagueness and Uncertainty in XML Querying and Retrieval.- XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance.- Term Disambiguation in Natural Language Query for XML.- Using Structural Relationships for Focused XML Retrieval.- XML Fuzzy Ranking.- Information Retrieval and Filtering.- A Flexible News Filtering Model Exploiting a Hierarchical Fuzzy Categorization.- Query Phrase Suggestion from Topically Tagged Session Logs.- Why Using Structural Hints in XML Retrieval?.- A Fuzzy Extension for the XPath Query Language.- Towards Flexible Information Retrieval Based on CP-Nets.- Highly Heterogeneous XML Collections: How to Retrieve Precise Results?.- Evaluation of System Measures for Incomplete Relevance Judgment in IR.- A Hierarchical Document Clustering Environment Based on the Induced Bisecting k-Means.- Search Strategies for Finding Annotations and Annotated Documents: The FAST Service.- Assisted Query Formulation Using Normalised Word Vector and Dynamic Ontological Filtering.- Fuzzy Query Answering in Motor Racing Domain.- Multimedia Information Access.- Using a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database for Colour Image Retrieval.- Structural and Semantic Modeling of Audio for Content-Based Querying and Browsing.- Similarity Between Multi-valued Thesaurus Attributes: Theory and Application in Multimedia Systems.- User Modelling and Personalization.- Robust Query Processing for Personalized Information Access on the Semantic Web.- Navigating Multimodal Meeting Recordings with the Meeting Miner.- Personalized Web Recommendation Based on Path Clustering.- The Lookahead Principle for Preference Elicitation: Experimental Results.- Improving the User-System Interaction in a Web Multi-agent System Using Fuzzy Multi-granular Linguistic Information.- Using Dynamic Fuzzy Ontologies to Understand Creative Environments.- Dynamically Personalized Web Service System to Mobile Devices.- Flexible Shape-Based Query Rewriting.- On Semantically-Augmented XML-Based P2P Information Systems.- Optimal Associative Neighbor Mining Using Attributes for Ubiquitous Recommendation Systems.- Knowledge and Data Extraction.- Mining Interest Navigation Patterns Based on Hybrid Markov Model.- Partition-Based Approach to Processing Batches of Frequent Itemset Queries.- Cooperative Discovery of Interesting Action Rules.- Multi-module Image Classification System.- UNL as a Text Content Representation Language for Information Extraction.- Information Theoretic Approach to Information Extraction.- Data Stream Synopsis Using SaintEtiQ.- Face Detection Using Sketch Operators and Vertical Symmetry.- Discrimination-Based Criteria for the Evaluation of Classifiers.- Intelligent Information Extraction from Texts.- A Hybrid Approach for Relation Extraction Aimed at the Semantic Web.- An XML Framework for a Basque Question Answering System.- Ontology-Based Application Server to the Execution of Imperative Natural Language Requests.- Annotating Documents by Their Intended Meaning to Make Them Self Explaining: An Essential Progress for the Semantic Web.- Enhancing Short Text Retrieval in Databases.- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Knowledge Representation Based on Ontology in Ontoweb System.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Using Knowledge Representation Languages for Video Annotation and