Semantics and evaluation of top-k queries in probabilistic databases

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-126

  Zhang, Xi ^a   Chomicki, Jan ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Probabilistic database; Query processing; Ranking query; Top k query

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIAL-TIME REDUCTION; PROBABILISTIC DATABASE; RANKING QUERY; SCORING FUNCTIONS; SPEED-UP; TIME COMPLEXITY; TOP-K QUERY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 67651211464     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-009-7050-y     Document Type: Article

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