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...
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...
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...
The design and implementation of advanced personalized database applications requires a preference-driven approach. Representing preferences as strict partial orders is a good cho...
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...