Conjunctive Aggregation of Extended Possibilistic Truth Values and Flexible Database Querying
Guy de Tré6
, Rita de Caluwe6, Jörg Verstraete6 and Axel Hallez6
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Computer Science Laboratory, Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium |
Abstract
Extended possibilistic truth values are a flexible means to model the linguistic (un)certainty about the truth value of a
proposition. With respect to flexible database querying, they are suited to express the extent to which a database instance
satisfies a query condition. Since a query can impose several conditions, aggregation is necessary. In this paper, three definitions
of conjunctive aggregation operators for extended possibilistic truth values are presented and compared with each other on
the basis of their capability to rank the possible alternatives in the result of a (flexible) database query.
Keywords Flexible database querying - extended possibilistic truth values - conjunctive aggregation
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