FUZZ-IEEE 2015 Special Session on Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval

Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval


We are organizing a special session on “Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval” at the FUZZ-IEEE 2015 Conference, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, August 2nd – 5th, 2015. We would like to encourage your participation. Please, find below some information about the session.

If you are interested to participate, please email us with a tentative title and the list of authors of your contribution.

Special session organizers


Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Guy De Tré (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
Antoon Bronselaer (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)

The organization of this session is an initiative of the EUSFLAT Working Group on Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval.

Scope


Soft computing extends the facilities and effectiveness of database and information retrieval systems in order to make them better accessible and to cope with imperfections in information.

Information processing systems, in particular database management systems and information retrieval systems, have become a crucial component in many businesses and organizations. Soft computing techniques can play an important role in extending facilities and effectiveness of such systems in order to make them better accessible and to cope with imperfection of the information dealt with herein, thereby explicitly considering the fact that information can be uncertain, imprecise, vaguely described, incomplete and/or inconsistent. Even if in the last 20 years data(base) modeling, database management, and database querying techniques as well as information retrieval modeling have been enriched and extended with soft computing methods, their potentials are still to be fully exploited. In particular, in this research context some hot topics include:

  • Flexible querying in the framework of both database management systems and information retrieval systems, notably search engines. The main aim is to make queries more human consistent, notably via the use of the elements of natural language. This is to make queries easier to formulate by the user and more expressive at the same time.
  • The handling of textual information including summarization, coreference detection and text merging.
  • Semi-structured data modeling, with a special emphasis on some XML-related techniques.
  • The use of thesauri and ontologies to enrich both information content and query representations, notably taking into account a gradual character of relations between the terms/concepts.
  • The handling of context features and their use in flexible querying and information retrieval.
  • The management of multimedia information. Hereby, it is, among others, studied how content based descriptions of texts, audio, images and video could be employed to compare and to inquire multimedia databases. Because of the fact that the features to describe contents are in some cases automatically extracted, imperfection of information must also be taken into account.
  • Intelligent information systems meant in a broad perspective as (a part of) decision support systems integrating all above mentioned techniques in order to provide the support for the decision maker.
  • Indexing and performance issues which are vital for the success of the developed soft computing based solutions.

The objective of the special issue is to provide an opportunity for exchanging ideas related to the application of fuzzy logic and soft computing in the above mentioned areas. The special session aims at providing a forum for the discussion of recent advances in this research field and to offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify new promising research directions.

The organizers welcome contributions that report on the application of various soft computing tools and techniques, notably fuzzy logic within the fields of (but not limited to)

  • fuzzy databases
  • information retrieval
  • content based information retrieval
  • geographical information systems
  • multimedia information systems

We encourage submissions of both theoretical and application papers.

Important Dates


Dates and deadlines will be the same of FUZZ-IEEE 2015. These are the following:

Paper Submission: February 8th, 2015
Notification: March 23rd, 2015
Final Paper Due: April 21st, 2015
Conference Date: August 2nd-5th, 2015