A top-down query processing method for first order deductive databases under the disjunctive well-founded semantics (DWFS) is presented. The method is based upon a characterisation...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
Query processing over graph-structured data is enjoying a growing number of applications. Keyword search on a graph finds a set of answers, each of which is a substructure of the ...
Current skyline evaluation techniques assume a fixed ordering on the attributes. However, dynamic preferences on nominal attributes are more realistic in known applications. In or...
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Jian Pei, ...