When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
This work addresses the issue of prioritized reasoning in the context of logic programming. The case of preference conditions involving atoms is considered and a refinement of th...
Today XML is an essential technology for knowledge management within enterprises and dissemination of data over the Web. Therefore the efficient evaluation of XML queries has been ...
Top-k spatial preference queries return a ranked set of the k best data objects based on the scores of feature objects in their spatial neighborhood. Despite the wide range of loc...
To provide users with only relevant data from the huge amount of available information, personalization systems utilize preferences to allow users to express their interest on spe...