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2007
13 years 5 months ago
Semantic optimization techniques for preference queries
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
Jan Chomicki
CDB
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Semantic Optimization of Preference Queries
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
Jan Chomicki
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A New Look at the Semantics and Optimization Methods of CP-Networks
Preference elicitation is a serious bottleneck in many decision support applications and agent specification tasks. CP-nets were designed to make the preference elicitation proces...
Ronen I. Brafman, Yannis Dimopoulos
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Ranking Query Results using Context-Aware Preferences
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...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Reasoning about soft constraints and conditional preferences: complexity results and approximation techniques
Many real life optimization problems contain both hard and soft constraints, as well as qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is no single formalism to specify all t...
Carmel Domshlak, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Ve...