A Literature Overview of Fuzzy Conceptual Data Modeling

Abstract

Fuzzy set theory has been extensively applied to extend various database models and resulted in numerous contributions, mainly with respect to the popular relational model or to some related form of it. To satisfy the need of modeling complex objects with imprecision and uncertainty, recently many researches have been concentrated on fuzzy semantic (conceptual) data models. This paper reviews fuzzy conceptual data models proposed in the literature, where fuzzy ER/EER, IFO and UML data models are mainly discussed, and reviews the applications of fuzzy conceptual data models.