Offering students and researchers in the behavioural and social sciences a brief and
accessible introduction to the comparative method, it is ideal for students of public …

This paper presents a survey of some fuzzy linguistic information access systems. The
review shows information retrieval systems, filtering systems, recommender systems, and …

This handbook provides information about fundamental aspects of the field and explores the
myriad applications of fuzzy logic techniques and methods. It presents basic conceptual …

A linguistic model for an Information Retrieval System (IRS) defined using an ordinal fuzzy
linguistic approach is proposed. The ordinal fuzzy linguistic approach is presented, and its …

An important question in IRSs is how to facilitate the IRS-user interaction, even more when
the complexity of the fuzzy query language makes difficult to formulate user queries. The use …

A “softening” of the hard Boolean scheme for information retrieval is presented. In this
approach, information retrieval is seen as a multicriteria decision‐making activity in which …

This paper reviews some applications of fuzzy set theory to model flexible information
retrieval systems, ie, systems that can represent and interpret the vagueness typical of …

Social networks are Web systems that enable and encourage a collaborative work, making it
possible to exchange information between users, which makes them especially useful in …

Internet users are assisted by means of distributed intelligent agents in the information
gathering process to find the fittest information to their needs. In this paper we present a …

The word consensus has been frequently used for centuries, perhaps millenia. People have
always deemed it important that decisions having a long lasting impact on groups, countries …