This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2006, held in Milan , Italy, on June 7-10, 2006. FQAS 2006 is preceded by the 1994, 1996 and 1998 editions, held in Roskilde, Denmark. More recently, FQAS 2000 was held in Warsaw, Poland, and
the 2002 and 2004 editions were held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in Lyon, France, respectively.
FQAS is the premier conference concerned with the very important issue of providing users of information systems with flexible querying capabilities and with an easy and intuitive access to information. More specifically, the overall theme of the FQAS conferences is the modelling and design of innovative and
flexible modalities for accessing information systems. The main objective is to achieve more expressive, informative, cooperative, and productive systems which facilitate retrieval from information repositories such as databases, libraries, heterogeneous archives, and the Web.