Inliers, outliers and fuzzy prototypes of the user profiles in a scientific metasearcher
José Á. Olivas, Horacio Daniel Kuna · 2017
Inliers and Outliers are widely studied in the world of databases. In the early 80's, L. A. Zadeh proposed an interesting approach to the concept of `prototype' which contrasts with the classical theories of prototypes from the field of cognitive psychology. This definition has not been used much in fuzzy scientific proposals. Metasearch engines are often designed and used for Information Retrieval tasks because they are cheap and easy to develop, as they get their results from multiple search engines. In this paper, a definition of Inliers and Outliers is presented and related to Zadeh's concept of fuzzy prototype: Inliers with the prototype of the borderline elements and Outliers with the prototype of the bad elements of a dataset. Then, this approach is used for dealing with the User Profiles in a real Scientific Metasearcher with the aim of proposing recommendations, sending warnings and in general enriching the management of these User Profiles. An example and experiments proposal in this real system are also presented.