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ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Preferences for Queries in a Mediator Approach
The problem of integrating relevant information obtained from multiple heterogeneous sources is a complex task, with which biologists are now faced. In this paper, we address the p...
Alain Bidault, Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Christine Fro...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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15 years 18 days 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