Édition d'un ouvrage, co-écrit par Olivier Pivert et Patrick Bosc (Irisa/Enssat), sur les requêtes à préférences modélisées dans le cadre de la théorie des ensembles flous
Avant-propos de Ronal R. Yager
The manipulation of databases is an integral part of a world which is
becoming increasingly and pervasively information-focused. This book
puts forward a suggestion to advocate preference queries and fuzzy sets
as a central concern in database queries and offers an important
contribution to the design of intelligent information systems... It provides a comprehensive study on fuzzy preference queries in the
context of relational databases. Preference queries, a recent hot topic
in database research, provide a basis for rank-ordering the items
retrieved, which is especially valuable for large sets of answers.