International workshop on 'Fuzzy logic on the web', Sydney, Australia
9 December 2008 - 9 December 2008
Australia
The international workshop on 'Fuzzy logic on the web' (FLOW 2008) will be held in Sydney, Australia, on 9 December.
Much research on how to make the web intelligent is centred on the question of introducing a form of automated reasoning in web-related activities. For example, an intelligent search would amount to posing queries that use deduction to obtain results instead of queries that return results based on the keywords of the query. An important subgoal of establishing this kind of automated reasoning is to make knowledge on the web understandable by machines.
As witnessed by approaches like the semantic web, the traditional choice of establishing machine-understandability was obtained by formalising knowledge with ontologies using two-valued logics like description logics or logic programming. However, fuzzy logic is inherently suited for expressing knowledge on the web, i.e. knowledge that is uncertain, imprecise and potentially inconsistent. This means that it has applications in such areas as: intelligent search, knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, social network analysis, question answering systems and web-based recommender systems.
The workshop will be part of events at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.For further information, please visit:
http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008/(opens in new window)
Much research on how to make the web intelligent is centred on the question of introducing a form of automated reasoning in web-related activities. For example, an intelligent search would amount to posing queries that use deduction to obtain results instead of queries that return results based on the keywords of the query. An important subgoal of establishing this kind of automated reasoning is to make knowledge on the web understandable by machines.
As witnessed by approaches like the semantic web, the traditional choice of establishing machine-understandability was obtained by formalising knowledge with ontologies using two-valued logics like description logics or logic programming. However, fuzzy logic is inherently suited for expressing knowledge on the web, i.e. knowledge that is uncertain, imprecise and potentially inconsistent. This means that it has applications in such areas as: intelligent search, knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, social network analysis, question answering systems and web-based recommender systems.
The workshop will be part of events at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.For further information, please visit:
http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008/(opens in new window)