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| Author | Lin, T. Y. |
| Abstract | Queries in database can be classified roughly into two types: specific targets and fuzzy targets. Many queries are in effect fuzzy targets, however, because of lacking the supports, the user has been emulating them with specific targets by retiring a query repeatedly with minor changes. In this paper, we augment the relational database, with neighborhood systems, so the database can answer a fuzzy query. There have been many works to combine relational databases and fuzzy theory. Bucklles and Petry replaced attributes values by sets of values. Zemankova-Leech, Kandel, and Zviell used fuzzy logic. The formalism of present work is quite general, it allows numerical or nonnumerical measurements of fuzziness in relational databases. The fuzzy theory present here is quite different from the usual theory. Our basic assumption here is that: the data are not fuzzy, the queries are.Motro [Motr86] introduced the notion of distance into the relational databases. From that he can, then, define the notion of “close-ness” and develop goal queries. Though “distance” is a useful concept, yet very often the quantification of it is meaningless or extremely difficult. For example, “very close”, “very far” are meaningful concept of distance, yet there is no practical way to quantity them for all occasions. Our approach here is more direct, we define directly the meaning of “very close neighborhood”. Using the concept of neighborhoods is not very original, in fact, in the theory of topological spaces [Dugu66], mathematician has been using the “neighborhood system” to study the phenomena of “close-ness”. In the territory of fuzzy queries, the notion of “neighborhood” captures the essence of the qualitative information of “close-ness” better than the brute-force-quantified information (distance). A “fuzzy” neighborhood is a qualitative measure of fuzziness.On the surface, it seems a very complicated procedure to define a neighborhood for each value in the attribute. In fact, if we use the characteristic function (membership function) to define a subset, then the defining procedure is merely another type of distance function (non-measure distance or symbolic distance). Now, to define the neighborhood system one can simply re-entered the third column of the relation with linguistic values: “very close”, “close”, “far”. Note that there is a “greater than” relation among these linguistic values. In mathematical terms, they forms a lattice [Jaco60]. For technical reason, we require the values in third column be elements of a lattice. Note that real number is a lattice, so we get Motro's results back. |
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| ISBN | 0897912608 |
| DOI | 10.1145/322609.323183 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 1988-02-01 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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