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Download or read book Flexible Query Answering Systems written by Troels Andreasen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2021, held virtually and in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021. The 16 full papers and 1 perspective papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: model-based flexible query answering approaches and data-driven approaches.

Download or read book Fuzzy Optimization written by Weldon A. Lodwick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization is an extremely important area in science and technology which provides powerful and useful tools and techniques for the formulation and solution of a multitude of problems in which we wish, or need, to to find a best possible option or solution. The volume is divided into a coupe of parts which present various aspects of fuzzy optimization, some related more general issues, and applications.

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