Recommender systems are important to help users select relevant and personalised information over massive amounts of data available. We propose an unified framework called Prefer...
A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
There has been interest recently in skyline queries, also called Pareto queries, on relational databases. Relational query languages do not support search for "best" tupl...
Jan Chomicki, Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Dongming ...
Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...