The present monograph intends to establish a solid link among three fields: fuzzy set theory, information retrieval, and cluster analysis. Fuzzy set theory supp

Information retrieval used to mean looking through thousands of strings of texts to find words or symbols that matched a user's query. Today, there are many mod

Fuzzy logic allows computer programmers to interpret ambiguous commands that ordinary, rigid programs are unable to decipher. For instance, computers can work w

This book provides a thorough understanding of the integration of computational intelligence with information retrieval including content-based image retrieval

Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of information based on its semantic content. The central problem in IR is th