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Title

Uncertainty management in information systems : from needs to solutions / edited by Amihai Motro, Philippe Smets.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Motro, Amihai.
• Smets, Philippe.

Description

xvi, 464 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• As the subtitle, From Needs to Solutions, indicates, this book presents viewpoints of information systems experts on the needs that challenge the uncertainty capabilities of present information systems, and it provides a forum to researchers in uncertainty modeling to describe models and systems that can address these needs.
• Hence, this book is not a collection of research papers, in which researchers describe their latest research projects; such collections, as excellent as they may be, do not necessarily cover an area methodically, and individual papers are often inaccessible to nonexperts.
• Rather, we began by outlining the structure of a book that will cover the entire spectrum of uncertainty modeling in information systems, and then requested leading experts to write authoritative tutorials and surveys that would fit the outline.

Subject

• Database management
• System design
• Uncertainty (Information theory)
• Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-455) and index.and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Amihai Motro -- 2. Sources of Uncertainty, Imprecision, and Inconsistency in Information Systems / Amihai Motro -- 3. Imperfect Information in Relational Databases / Esteban Zimanyi and Alain Pirotte -- 4. Uncertainty in Intelligent Databases / Robert Demolombe -- 5. Uncertain, Incomplete, and Inconsistent Data in Scientific and Statistical Databases / Stephen Kwan, Frank Olken and Doron Rotem -- 6. Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Imperfect Information / Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro -- 7. Uncertainty in Information Retrieval Systems / Howard R. Turtle and W. Bruce Croft -- 8. Imperfect Information: Imprecision and Uncertainty / Philippe Smets -- 9. Probabilistic and Bayesian Representations of Uncertainty in Information Systems: A Pragmatic Introduction / Max Henrion, Henri J. Suermondt and David E. Heckerman --
• 10. An Introduction to the Fuzzy Set and Possibility Theory-Based Treatment of Flexible Queries and Uncertain or Imprecise Databases / Patric Bosc and Henri Prade -- 11. Logical Handling of Inconsistent and Default Information / Philippe Besnard, Luis Farinas del Cerro, Dov Gabbay and Anthony Hunter -- 12. The Transferable Belief Model for Belief Representation / Philippe Smets and Rudolf Kruse -- 13. Approximate Reasoning Systems: Handling Uncertainty and Imprecision in Information Systems / Piero P. Bonissone -- 14. On the Classification of Uncertainty Techniques in Relation to the Application Needs / E. H. Mamdani -- 15. A Bibliography on Uncertainty Management in Information Systems / Curtis E. Dyreson.

ISBN

0792398033

LCCN

96045712

OCLC

• 35911480
• ocm35911480

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries