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ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Reverse Top-k Queries
Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
DBSEC
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
Why Is this User Asking so Many Questions? Explaining Sequences of Queries
A sequence of queries submitted by a database user within a short period of time may have a single, illuminating explanation. In this paper we consider sequences of single-record q...
Aybar C. Acar, Amihai Motro
ICDE
2008
IEEE
131views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
On Skylining with Flexible Dominance Relation
Given a set of d dimensional objects, a skyline query finds the objects ("skyline") that are not dominated by others. However, skylines do not always provide useful query...
Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang, Yufei Tao
VLDB
1997
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources
Many sources on the Internet and elsewhere rank the objects in query results according to how well these objects match the original query. For example, a real-estate agent might r...
Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina
IJCSA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Consistency Check Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Preference Trade-Offs
: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...
Christoph Lofi, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntz...