The study of databases began with the design of efficient storage and data sharing techniques for large amount of data. This paper concerns the processing of imprecision and indiscernibility in relational databases using vague rough technique leading to vague rough relational database model. We utilize the notion of indiscernibility and possibility from rough set theory coupled with the idea of...

Many knowledge-based systems need to represent vague concepts such as \old" and \tall". The practical approach of representing vague concepts as precise intervals over numbers (e.g., \old" as the interval [70,110]) is well-accepted in Arti cial Intelligence. However, there have been no systematic procedures, only ad hoc methods, to delimit the boundaries of intervals representing the vague pred...

This paper addresses the question of how to model the application of vague predicates like tall and bald to plural subjects like John and Mary and the men. In other words, we are interested in developing a logical analysis for natural language sentences like Mary is tall and The men are bald. In the past 30 years, much research has been devoted to finding the proper logical framework to model t...

Inaccessibility of part of the database is a research topic hardly addressed in the literature about distributed databases. However, there are various application areas, where the database has to remain operable even if part of the database is inaccessible. In particular, queries to the database should be processed in an appropriate way. This means that the nal and all intermediate results of a...

stuttering as a disorder from which many people suffer has drawn the attention of many psychologists and theorists. however, very few studies have investigated the incidence of this phenomenon in second language learning. this study deals with the problem from only one perspective: how does stuttering in second language of a stammerer come to exist? the answer to this question seems to be vague...

Many geographical applications deal with objects in space that cannot be adequately described by determinate, crisp spatial concepts because of their intrinsically indeterminate and vague nature. Geographical information systems and spatial database systems are currently unable to cope with this kind of data. To support the efficient representation, querying, and manipulation of vague spatial d...