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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Stretch 'n' shrink: resizing queries to user preferences
We present Stretch `n' Shrink, a query design framework that explicitly takes into account user preferences about the desired answer size, and subsequently modifies the query...
Chaitanya Mishra, Nick Koudas
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Building an efficient preference XML query processor
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
SungRan Cho, Wolf-Tilo Balke
AAAI
2008
14 years 4 days ago
Minimal Contraction of Preference Relations
Changing preferences is very common in real life. The expressive power of the operations of preference change introduced so far in the literature is limited to adding new informat...
Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki
DEXA
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Optimal Preference Elicitation for Skyline Queries over Categorical Domains
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Joachim...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 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...