(DBWORLD) BOOK: Uncertainty Management in Information Systems

Amihai Motro (ami@aviv.isse.gmu.edu)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:45:59 -0500 (CDT)

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Uncertainty Management in Information Systems
From Needs to Solutions

Edited by
Amihai Motro and Philippe Smets

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, 480 pages
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/book.htm?0-7923-9803-3

This book is about how information systems can be made to manage information
permeated with uncertainty. This subject is at the intersection of two
areas of knowledge: information systems is an area that concentrates on the
design of practical systems that can store and retrieve information;
uncertainty modeling is an area in artificial intelligence concerned with
accurate representation of uncertain information and with inference and
decision-making under conditions infused with uncertainty. The book is
divided roughly into two parts. The first part, authored by researchers who
work in information systems, concentrates on the needs that challenge the
uncertainty capabilities of present information systems; the second part,
authored by researchers in uncertainty modeling, describes models and
systems that can address these needs. The book was carefully structured to
cover the entire spectrum of uncertainty modeling in information systems.
It contains authoritative tutorials and surveys that were solicited from
experts in each field, and it includes an extensive, classified bibliography
of over 430 references.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction --- A. Motro
2. Sources of Uncertainty, Imprecision, and Inconsistency in Information
Systems --- A. Motro
3. Imperfect Information in Relational Databases --- E. Zimanyi and
A. Pirotte
4. Uncertainty in Intelligent Databases --- R. Demolombe
5. Uncertain, Incomplete, and Inconsistent Data in Scientific and
Statistical Databases --- S. Kwan, F. Olken, and D. Rotem
6. Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Imperfect Information ---
G. Piatetsky-Shapiro
7. Uncertainty in Information Retrieval Systems --- H.R. Turtle and
W.B. Croft
8. Imperfect Information: Imprecision and Uncertainty --- P. Smets
9. Probabilistic and Bayesian Representation of Uncertainty in Information
Systems: A Pragmatic Introduction --- M. Henrion, H.J. Suermondt, and
D.E. Heckerman
10. An Introduction to the Fuzzy Set and Possibility Theory-Based Treatment
of Flexible Queries and Uncertain and Imprecise Databases --- P. Bosc
and H. Prade
11. Logical Handling of Inconsistent and Default Information --- P. Besnard,
L.F. del Cerro, D. Gabbay, and A. Hunter
12. The Transferable Belief Model for Belief Representation --- P. Smets and
R. Kruse
13. Approximate Reasoning Systems: Handling Uncertainty and Imprecision in
Information Systems --- 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 ---
C.E. Dyreson

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Ami Motro Office: ST2-455
Associate Professor Voice: (703)993-1665
Department of Information and Dept.: (703)993-1640
Software Systems Engineering Fax: (703)993-1638
George Mason University Email: ami@gmu.edu
Fairfax, VA 22030 http://www.isse.gmu.edu/~ami
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