FQAS 2011 - Final Programme

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Wednesday, October 26th

TimeActivity
8:00-9:00Registration
9:00-9:20Welcome by Paul Van Cauwenberge (Rector of Ghent University)
9:20-10:40Session S01: Logical approaches to flexible querying chair: Jozo Dujmovic
Generalizing Conjunctive Queries for Informative Answers Katsumi Inoue and Lena Wiese
ReAction: Personalized Minimal Repair Adaptations for Customer Requests Monika Schubert, Alexander Felfernig and Florian Reinfran
Uncertainty that Counts Dany Maslowski and Jef Wijsen
Structured Data-based Q&A System Using Surface Patterns Nicolas Kuchmann-Beauger and Marie-Aude Aufaure
10:40-11:10Coffee Break
11:10-12:00Plenary talk P01: "Bipolar querying: some cognitive and decision theoretic inspirations" by prof. Janusz Kacprzyk chair: Bernard De Baets
12:00-13:00Session S02: Ranking, ordering and statistics chair: Adnan Yazici
Fuzzy Orderings for Fuzzy Gradual Patterns Malaquias Quintero, Anne Laurent and Pascal Poncelet
Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient for Vague Preferences Przemysław Grzegorzewski and Paulina Ziembińska
Premium Based on Mixture Utility Jana Špirková
13:00-14:30Lunch
14:30-15:50Session S03: Knowledge-based approaches chair: Olga Pons
Semantic Processing of Database Textual Attributes using Wikipedia Jesús Roque Campaña, Juan Miguel Medina and Maria-Amparo Vila
Querying Class-Relationship Logic in a Metalogic Framework Jørgen Fischer Nilsson
A Semantics-based Approach to Retrieving Biomedical Information Troels Andreasen, Henrik Bulskov, Sine Zambach, Tine Lassen, Bodil Nistrup Madsen, Per Anker Jensen,Hanne Erdmann Thomsen and Jørgen Fischer Nilsson
Knowledge Extraction for Question Titling Carolina Gallardo Pérez and Jesús Cardeñosa
15:50-16:10Coffee Break
16:10-17:10Session S04: Multimedia Multilingual Video Indexing and Retrieval chair: Murat Koyuncu
Employing an Information Extraction Tool for Turkish News Texts: A Case Study Dilek Küçük and Adnan Yazici
A Search-Engine Concept Based on Multi-Feature Vectors and Spatial Relationship Tatiana Jaworska
Exploiting Class-Specific Features in Multi-Feature Dissimilarity Space for Efficient Querying of Images Turgay Yilmaz, Adnan Yazici and Yakup Yildirim
18:00-19:00Welcome reception in City hall of Ghent

Thursday, October 27th

9:00-10:00Session S05: Data fuzziness, reliability and trust chair: Troels Andreasen
Generalised Fuzzy Types and Querying. Implementation within the Hibernate Framework Jose Enrique Pons, Ignacio Blanco Medina and Olga Pons Capote
Data Reliability Assessment in a Data Warehouse Opened on the Web Sébastien Destercke, Patrice Buche and Brigitte Charnomordic
Propagation of Question Waves by Means of Trust in a Social Network Albert Trias Mansilla and Josep Lluis De La Rosa Esteva
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:20Plenary talk P02: "Design of Flexible Criteria Using Soft Computing Evaluation Logic" by prof. Jozo Dujmovic chair: Henrik Legind Larsen
11:20-12:40Session S06: Information retrieval chair: Gabriella Pasi
Investigating the Statistical Properties of User-Generated Documents Giacomo Inches, Mark James Carman and Fabio Crestani
Information Retrieval from Turkish Radiology Reports without Medical Knowledge Kerem Hadımlı and Meltem Turhan Yöndem
Discovering and Analyzing Multi-Granular WebSearch Results Gloria Bordogna and Giuseppe Psaila
Semantically Oriented Sentiment Mining in Location-Based Social Network Spaces Domenico Carlone and Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo
12:40-14:30Lunch
14:30-15:50Session S07: Preference queries chair: Olivier Pivert
Skyline Snippets Markus Endres and Werner Kießling
Evaluating Top-k Algorithms with Various Sources of Data and User Preferences Alan Eckhardt, Erik Horničák and Peter Vojtáš
Efficient and Effective Query Answering for Trajectory Cuboids Elio Masciari
A Model for Analyzing and Visualizing Tabular Data Ekaterina Simonenko, Nicolas Spyratos and Tsuyoshi Sugibuchi
15:50-16:10Coffee Break
16:10-17:00Plenary talk P03: "Contextualizing Search: Issues and Challenges
by prof. Gabriella Pasi
chair: Janusz Kacprzyk
17:00-18:00Session S08: Flexible querying of graph data chair: Gloria Bordogna
An Analysis of an Efficient Data Structure for Evaluating Flexible Constraints on XML Documents Stefania Marrara, Emanuele Panzeri and Gabriella Pasi
Intuitionistic Fuzzy XML Query Matching Mohammedsharaf Alzebdi, Panagiotis Chountas and Krassimir Atanassov
A Cooperative Answering Approach to Fuzzy Preferences Queries in Service Discovery Katia Abbaci, Fernando Lemos, Allel Hadjali, Grigori Daniela, Ludovic Liétard, Daniel Rocacher and Mokrane Bouzeghoub
19:00-19:30Walking tour Ghent City center
19:30-23:00Banquet at Gravensteen castle

Friday, October 28th

9:00-10:00Session S09: Fuzzy logic in spatial and temporal data modeling and querying chair: Sławomir Zadrożny
Higher Reasoning with Level-2 Fuzzy Regions Jörg Verstraete
Bipolar Fuzzy Querying of Temporal Databases Christophe Billiet, Jose Enrique Pons, Tom Matthé, Guy De Tré and Olga Pons Capote
Implementation of X-tree with 3D Spatial Index and Fuzzy Secondary Index Sinan Keskin, Adnan Yazıcı and Halit Oğuztüzün
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:50Session SS01: Fuzzy databases and applications 1 chair: Carlos D. Barranco Gonzáles
On Possibilistic Skyline Queries Patrick Bosc, Allel Hadjali and Olivier Pivert
A Fuzzy Valid-Time Model for Relational Databases Within the Hibernate Framework Jose Enrique Pons, Olga Pons Capote and Ignacio Blanco Medina
On the Use of a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database for Retrieval of X-rays on the Basis of Spine Curvature Pattern Similarities Sergio Jaime-Castillo, Juan Miguel Medina, Carlos D. Barranco and Antonio Garrido
A Fuzzy-Rule-Based Approach to the Handling of Inferred Fuzzy Predicates in Database Queries Allel Hadjali and Olivier Pivert
11:50-12:50Panel discussion chair: Marcin Detyniecki
12:50-14:30Lunch
14:30-15:20Plenary talk P04: "Analyzing, structuring and understanding unstructured data as a starting point for flexible database access"
by Michaël Brands and Alain Houf (Intersystems)
chair: Guy De Tré
15:20-16:40Session S10: Query recommendation and interpretation chair: Henning Christiansen
Which Should We Try First? Ranking Information Resources through Query Classification Amihai Motro and Joshua Church
Context Modelling for Situation-Sensitive Recommendations Stewart Whiting and Joemon Jose
Folksonomy Query Suggestion via Users' Search Intent Prediction Chiraz Trabelsi, Bilel Moulahi and Sadok Ben Yahia
Factorizing Three-way Ordinal Data Using Triadic Formal Concepts Radim Belohlavek, Petr Osička and Vilem Vychodil
16:40-17:00Coffee Break
17:00-18:20Session SS02: Fuzzy databases and applications 2 chair: Juan Miguel Medina Rodriguez
Flexible Content Extraction and Querying for Videos Utku Demir, Murat Koyuncu, Adnan Yazici, Turgay Yilmaz and Mustafa Sert
Bipolar SQLf: a Flexible Querying Language for Relational Databases Nouredine Tamani, Ludovic Liétard and Daniel Rocacher
On the Behavior of Indexes for Imprecise Numerical Data and Necessity Measured Queries under Skewed Data Sets Carlos D. Barranco, Jesús Roque Campaña, Juan Miguel Medina
Fuzzy Domains with Adaptable Semantics in an Object-Relational DBMS José Tomás Cadenas, Nicolás Marín and Maria-Amparo Vila
18:20-...Closing