Title :
Flexible querying in multimedia databases with an object query language
Author :
Bosc, Patrick ; Çonnan, Fransois ; Rocacher, Daniel
Author_Institution :
ENSSAT, IRISA, Lannion, France
Abstract :
The objective of flexible querying is to provide users with new interrogation capabilities based on fuzzy criteria. The problem is no longer to decide if an element does or does not satisfy a Boolean condition, but rather to what extent it satisfies a fuzzy (or imprecise) condition. Expressing fuzzy conditions allows users to express preferences and to have ranked answers. In this paper we show that flexible querying is an essential tool to manipulate multimedia data and we describe a general framework which makes flexible querying suitable for multimedia databases
Keywords :
database theory; fuzzy logic; fuzzy set theory; multimedia computing; object-oriented databases; query processing; relational databases; flexible querying; fuzzy conditions; fuzzy logic; fuzzy set theory; multimedia databases; object oriented model; object query language; user preferences; Content based retrieval; Database languages; Fuzzy set theory; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information management; Management information systems; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Relational databases;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems Proceedings, 1998. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., The 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4863-X
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.1998.686308
