A System for Management and Analysis of Preference Data

Summary: Relational-model preference-data management with a specialized preference-relations type and composable operators. SQL-embedded operators enable reusable analytics across ranking, voting, and recommendations, scalable to modern volumes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10973
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.5765908e-05
Overall Rank: 7,642 | 47.57%
DOI: 10.14778/2732977.2732998

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Marie Jacob (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Benny Kimelfeld (LogicBlox)
3. Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jacob_vldb14,
        title = {{A System for Management and Analysis of Preference Data}},
        author = {Jacob, Marie and Kimelfeld, Benny and Stoyanovich, Julia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1255},
        doi = {10.14778/2732977.2732998},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732977.2732998},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,717	Rank aggregation with ties: Experiments and Analysis	2015	VLDB	5.795458e-05
8,743	A Query Engine for Probabilistic Preferences	2018	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05
8,745	Querying Probabilistic Preferences in Databases	2017	PODS	5.3766157e-05
11,837	Query Evaluation in Election Databases	2019	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,383	Most Expected Winner: An Interpretation of Winners over Uncertain Voter Preferences	2023	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
656	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00015258172
973	RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries	2005	SIGMOD	0.00012874284
2,652	Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties	2004	PODS	8.291138e-05
4,547	Mind the Gap: Large-Scale Frequent Sequence Mining	2013	SIGMOD	6.6373455e-05
7,643	Understanding local structure in ranked datasets	2013	CIDR	5.5765908e-05

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