Originally, managinguncertainty and inconsistencyhas especiallybeen explored in the ?eld of arti?cial intelligence. During recent years, particularly with the availabilityofmassiveamountsofdataindi?erentrepositoriesandthepossibility of integrating and exploiting these data, technologies for managing uncertainty andinconsistencyhavestartedtoplayakeyroleindatabasesandtheWeb.Some of the most prominent of these technologies are probably the ranking algorithms behind Web search engines. Techniques for handling uncertainty and incons- tency are expected to play a similarly important role in the...
Originally, managinguncertainty and inconsistencyhas especiallybeen explored in the ?eld of arti?cial intelligence. During recent years, particularly ...