A Survey on representation, composition and application of preferences in database systems

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Stefanidis, Kostas ^a   Koutrika, Georgia ^b   Pitoura, Evaggelia ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Preference modeling; Preference queries

Indexed keywords

DATABASE QUERIES; DATABASE QUERYING; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; PREFERENCE MODELING; PREFERENCE QUERIES; PREFERENCE QUERY PROCESSING; PREFERENCE REPRESENTATION; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; THREE AXES;

DECISION MAKING; QUERY PROCESSING; SURVEYS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 80052370899     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2000824.2000829     Document Type: Review

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