Complex Preference Queries Supporting Spatial Applications for User Groups

Summary: Preference SQL supports single users and groups to find Istanbul accommodations under hard constraints, with spatial queries treated as soft. DB-backed backend enables SQL integration and efficient, extensible preference processing with map-based results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10631
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,337 | 15.36%
DOI: 10.14778/2367502.2367544

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Authors

1. Florian Wenzel (University of Augsburg)
2. Markus Endres (University of Augsburg)
3. Stefan Mandl (University of Augsburg)
4. Werner Kießling (University of Augsburg)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wenzel_vldb12,
        title = {{Complex Preference Queries Supporting Spatial Applications for User Groups}},
        author = {Wenzel, Florian and Endres, Markus and Mandl, Stefan and Kießling, Werner},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1946--1949},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367544},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367544},
        year = {2012}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
656	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00015258172
2,689	The Spatial Skyline Queries	2006	VLDB	8.2559825e-05

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