The Paradigm of Computing with Words in Intelligent Database Querying
Janusz Kacprzyk, Sławomir Zadrożny · Studies in fuzziness and soft computing · 1999
We present how the paradigm of computing with words may contribute to user-friendliness and effectiveness of database querying. We illustrate our exposition with the latest version of our FQUERY for Access system, a fuzzy querying user-friendly interface to Microsoft Access. The system accommodates fuzzy (imprecise) terms and linguistic quantifiers allowing for more human-consistent queries. The system employs Zadeh’s (1983) fuzzy logic based calculus of linguistically quantified propositions. Alternatively, Yager’s (1988) ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators may be used to deal with fuzzy linguistic quantifiers.