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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 9 hour ago
Probabilistic skyline queries
The ability to deal with uncertain information is becoming increasingly important for modern database applications. Whereas a conventional (certain) object is usually represented ...
Christian Böhm, Frank Fiedler, Annahita Oswal...
NIPS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
The Intelligent surfer: Probabilistic Combination of Link and Content Information in PageRank
The PageRank algorithm, used in the Google search engine, greatly improves the results of Web search by taking into account the link structure of the Web. PageRank assigns to a pa...
Matthew Richardson, Pedro Domingos
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Ranking distributed probabilistic data
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Feifei Li, Ke Yi, Jeffrey Jestes
ICDE
2007
IEEE
113views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Ranking Query Results using Context-Aware Preferences
To better serve users’ information needs without requiring comprehensive queries from users, a simple yet effective technique is to explore the preferences of users. Since these...
Arthur H. van Bunningen, Maarten M. Fokkinga, Pete...
VLDB
1990
ACM
116views Database» more  VLDB 1990»
13 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Norbert Fuhr