Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval

FQAS 2009 – Flexible Query Answering Systems International Conference
Roskilde, Denmark, October 26-28 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION:
Advances in Fuzzy Querying: Theory and Applications

ORGANIZERS:
Adnan Yazici (yazici@ceng.metu.edu.tr), Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Janusz Kacprzyk (kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl), Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Guy De Tré (Guy.DeTre@UGent.be), Dept. of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Slawomir Zadrozny (Slawomir.Zadrozny@ibspan.waw.pl), Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Supported by the EUSFLAT Working Group on Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval (http://www.eusflat.org/research/scdbmir.htm)

SCOPE:
Nowadays, one of the most crucial challenges raised by modern Database Management Systems, and by Information Systems in general, concerns the ability to make their huge, often heterogeneous and imperfect data volumes better accessible for a human being.
Soft computing and fuzzy set theory have been important tools in many research works that aim to deal with the intrinsic complexity of querying and information handling as required by current information systems. The aim of this special session is to collect and present recent scientific advances in soft computing and fuzzy set theory applied to flexible querying. Moreover, the session should offer opportunities to exchange ideas, to discuss theoretical and experimental results, and to identify new promising directions of research and unsolved problems in this area.

We invite contributions that focus on the application of:
- fuzzy set theory
- fuzzy logic
- soft computing
to the development of fuzzy querying techniques within the following, non-exhaustive, list of fields:
- regular and fuzzy databases
- information retrieval
- semi-structured data
- geographical information systems
- multimedia information systems
- web search engines
- spatio-temporal data modelling

We encourage submissions of papers on theoretical advances in these core areas as well as papers which deal with some practical insights resulting from experiments or implementations.
The authors of selected papers will be invited to additionally prepare extended versions of their papers to be published in a post-conference special issue of the “International Journal of Intelligent Systems”.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: June 29th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2009
Final paper due: August 14th, 2009

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 12 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).