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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Fuzzy Systems Volume 2011, Article ID 683976, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/683976 Research Article An Intelligent Information Retrieval Approach Based on Two Degrees of Uncertainty Fuzzy Ontology Maryam Hourali and Gholam Ali Montazer IT Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-179, Tehran, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Gholam Ali Montazer, montazer@modares.ac.ir Received 15 June 2011; Revised 6 August 2011; Accepted 10 August 2011 Academic Editor: Salvatore Sessa Copyright © 2011 M. Hourali and G. A. Montazer. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In spite of the voluminous studies in the field of intelligent retrieval systems, effective retrieving of information has been remained an important unsolved problem. Implementations of different conceptual knowledge in the information retrieval process such as ontology have been considered as a solution to enhance the quality of results. Furthermore, the conceptual formalism supported by typical ontology may not be sufficient to represent uncertainty information due to the lack of clear-cut boundaries between concepts of the domains. To tackle this type of problems, one possible solution is to insert fuzzy logic into ontology construction process. In this article, a novel approach for fuzzy ontology generation with two uncertainty degrees is proposed. Hence, by implementing linguistic variables, uncertainty level in domain’s concepts (Software Maintenance Engineering (SME) domain) has been modeled, and ontology relations have been modeled b