A Fuzzy Approach to Accessing Accident Databases

This paper is concerned with accessing information from accident databases. It discusses the limitation of current accident databases and focuses on the issue of finding and ranking of information that relates to a query. A user or system initiates an interaction with a database by specifying what is of interest in the form of a query. The query does not have to be treated as a precise description of what is of interest, but a vague or “fuzzy” one. Fuzzy database techniques make it possible to exploit all available information by returning not only items that match the query exactly, but also items that bear some relation to the query.