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...
To handle the overwhelming amount of information currently available, personalization systems allow users to specify the information that interests them through preferences. Most ...
Abstract— Recent advances in graph-based search techniques derived from Kleinberg’s work [1] have been impressive. This paper further improves the graph-based search algorithm ...
Abstract. Research in Cooperative Query answering is triggered by the observation that users are often not able to correctly formulate queries to databases that return the intended...
— In this paper, we aim to realize a context and preference-aware database system, CareDB, that provides scalable personalized location-based services to users based on their pre...