Automated recommendation (e.g., personalized product recommendation on an ecommerce web site) is an increasingly valuable service associated with many databases--typically online ...
Most of the existing work on skyline query has been extensively used in decision support, recommending systems etc, and mainly focuses on the efficiency issue for a single table. ...
Many Web sources provide forms to allow users to query their hidden data. For instance, online stores such as Amazon.com have search interfaces, using which users can query informa...
We introduce SelfTalk, a novel declarative language that allows users to query and understand the status of a large scale system. SelfTalk is sufficiently expressive to encode an ...
Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...