We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
To better serve users’ information needs without requiring comprehensive queries from users, a simple yet effective technique is to explore the preferences of users. Since these...
Arthur H. van Bunningen, Maarten M. Fokkinga, Pete...
There has been a great deal of interest in the past few years on ranking of results of queries on structured databases, including work on probabilistic information retrieval, rank...
Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Nishant Kapoor, S. ...
This paper proposes a ranking method to exploit statistical correlations among pairs of attribute values in relational databases. For a given query, the correlations of the query ...
Mediator-based data integration systems resolve exploratory queries by joining data elements across sources. In the presence of uncertainties, such multiple expansions can quickly ...
Landon Detwiler, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Brenton Lou...