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AI
2011
Springer
13 years 1 days ago
Contracting preference relations for database applications
The binary relation framework has been shown to be applicable to many real-life preference handling scenarios. Here we study preference contraction: the problem of discarding sele...
Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months 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
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 5 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
ADC
2005
Springer
114views Database» more  ADC 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Optimization of Relational Preference Queries
The design and implementation of advanced personalized database applications requires a preference-driven approach. Representing preferences as strict partial orders is a good cho...
Bernd Hafenrichter, Werner Kießling
ER
2006
Springer
137views Database» more  ER 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Preference Functional Dependencies for Managing Choices
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
Wilfred Ng