— This paper introduces a novel keyword searching paradigm in Relational Databases (DBs), where the result of a search is a ranked set of Object Summaries (OSs). An OS summarizes...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
With the increasing amount of text data stored in relational databases, there is a demand for RDBMS to support keyword queries over text data. As a search result is often assemble...
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...