ReqFlex: Fuzzy Queries for Everyone

Summary: A complete fuzzy-set framework for personalized preference queries over relational data. PostgreSQL_f enables efficient fuzzy-query execution, while ReqFlex provides an intuitive interface for specifying preferences and constructing queries. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10761
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,644 | 6.39%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536308

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Authors

1. Grégory Smits (University of Rennes)
2. Olivier Pivert (University of Rennes)
3. Thomas Girault (Freelance Engineer)

BibTeX Citation

@article{smits_vldb13,
        title = {{ReqFlex: Fuzzy Queries for Everyone}},
        author = {Smits, Grégory and Pivert, Olivier and Girault, Thomas},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1206--1209},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536308},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536308},
        year = {2013}
}

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