Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is query modification: a query tran...
Preference queries have received considerable attention in the recent past, due to their use in selecting the most preferred objects, especially when the selection criteria are con...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis M...
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...