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...
Abstract. Consistent query answering (CQA) is about formally characterizing and computing semantically correct answers to queries posed to a database that may fail to satisfy certa...
This paper investigates query translation in cross-lingual information retrieval, especially the challenges caused by ambiguity and polysemi. We base our ideas on feature vectors a...
We introduce approximate query techniques for searching and analyzing two-dimensional data sets such as line or scatter plots. Our techniques allow users to explore a dataset by d...
Kathy Ryall, Neal Lesh, Tom Lanning, Darren Leigh,...
Personalization is a powerful mechanism that helps users to cope with the abundance of information on the Web. Database query personalization achieves this by dynamically construc...