Flexible Query Answering Systems [electronic resource] : 7th International Conference, FQAS 2006, Milan, Italy, June 7-10, 2006 /

Flexibility in Database Management and Querying -- Project-Join-Repair: An Approach to Consistent Query Answering Under Functional Dependencies -- Algebra-Based Identification of Tree Patterns in XQuery -- Approximate Querying of XML Fuzzy Data -- Relaxation Paradigm in a Flexible Querying Context -- A Functional Model for Data Analysis -- Materialization-Based Range and k-Nearest Neighbor Query Processing Algorithms -- Flexible Querying Using Structural and Event Based Multimodal Video Data Model -- Reverse Nearest Neighbor Search in Peer-to-Peer Systems -- On Tuning OWA Operators in a Flexible Querying Interface -- Towards a Flexible Visualization Tool for Dealing with Temporal Data -- Vagueness and Uncertainty in XML Querying and Retrieval -- XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance -- Term Disambiguation in Natural Language Query for XML -- Using Structural Relationships for Focused XML Retrieval -- XML Fuzzy Ranking -- Information Retrieval and Filtering -- A Flexible News Filtering Model Exploiting a Hierarchical Fuzzy Categorization -- Query Phrase Suggestion from Topically Tagged Session Logs -- Why Using Structural Hints in XML Retrieval? -- A Fuzzy Extension for the XPath Query Language -- Towards Flexible Information Retrieval Based on CP-Nets -- Highly Heterogeneous XML Collections: How to Retrieve Precise Results? -- Evaluation of System Measures for Incomplete Relevance Judgment in IR -- A Hierarchical Document Clustering Environment Based on the Induced Bisecting k-Means -- Search Strategies for Finding Annotations and Annotated Documents: The FAST Service -- Assisted Query Formulation Using Normalised Word Vector and Dynamic Ontological Filtering -- Fuzzy Query Answering in Motor Racing Domain -- Multimedia Information Access -- Using a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database for Colour Image Retrieval -- Structural and Semantic Modeling of Audio for Content-Based Querying and Browsing -- Similarity Between Multi-valued Thesaurus Attributes: Theory and Application in Multimedia Systems -- User Modelling and Personalization -- Robust Query Processing for Personalized Information Access on the Semantic Web -- Navigating Multimodal Meeting Recordings with the Meeting Miner -- Personalized Web Recommendation Based on Path Clustering -- The Lookahead Principle for Preference Elicitation: Experimental Results -- Improving the User-System Interaction in a Web Multi-agent System Using Fuzzy Multi-granular Linguistic Information -- Using Dynamic Fuzzy Ontologies to Understand Creative Environments -- Dynamically Personalized Web Service System to Mobile Devices -- Flexible Shape-Based Query Rewriting -- On Semantically-Augmented XML-Based P2P Information Systems -- Optimal Associative Neighbor Mining Using Attributes for Ubiquitous Recommendation Systems -- Knowledge and Data Extraction -- Mining Interest Navigation Patterns Based on Hybrid Markov Model -- Partition-Based Approach to Processing Batches of Frequent Itemset Queries -- Cooperative Discovery of Interesting Action Rules -- Multi-module Image Classification System -- UNL as a Text Content Representation Language for Information Extraction -- Information Theoretic Approach to Information Extraction -- Data Stream Synopsis Using SaintEtiQ -- Face Detection Using Sketch Operators and Vertical Symmetry -- Discrimination-Based Criteria for the Evaluation of Classifiers -- Intelligent Information Extraction from Texts -- A Hybrid Approach for Relation Extraction Aimed at the Semantic Web -- An XML Framework for a Basque Question Answering System -- Ontology-Based Application Server to the Execution of Imperative Natural Language Requests -- Annotating Documents by Their Intended Meaning to Make Them Self Explaining: An Essential Progress for the Semantic Web -- Enhancing Short Text Retrieval in Databases -- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Knowledge Representation Based on Ontology in Ontoweb System -- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -- Using Knowledge Representation Languages for Video Annotation and Retrieval -- Question Answering with Imperfect Temporal Information -- Analysis and Validation of Information Access Through Mono, Multidimensional and Dynamic Taxonomies -- The Flow Control of Audio Data Using Distributed Terminal Mixing in Multi-point Communication -- Three-Dimensional Representation of Conceptual Fuzzy Relations -- Fuzzy Ontologies for the Semantic Web -- Flexible Intensional Query-Answering for RDF Peer-to-Peer Systems.